Chapter 111: The Great War is Imminent
After taking possession of Jikur, the Fox Wolf made contact with Mephisto in Trivank, and he explained his tactical plan to the Demon God, saying that he would soon send troops to help the Sakaram Legion out of the predicament of being hunted down.
At this time, the people in the harbor of Kurast had just learned the news of the capture of Jikur from the survivors, and the fox wolf expected that even if the professionals in the harbor guessed his true intention to occupy Jikur, they would never have time to send reinforcements to Hodge, who was pursuing the Sakaram army.
At most, they informed the Demon Slayer Legion that they were ready to abandon the pursuit and retreat, so that the Sakaram Legion had managed to retain most of its strength.
He played the time difference in between.
However, although the fox wolf's plan was clever, he could not have imagined how powerful the swarm was in terms of battlefield reconnaissance and transportation capabilities.
And he also underestimated the war wisdom of the high-level commander of the swarm, what he didn't know was that within less than two hours of his occupation of Jikur, Xue Hua had already learned that Jikur might have been breached, and the two high-level zergs Zagara and Sarah had guessed his true intentions almost instantly.
The asymmetry of battlefield information created this tactical mistake of the fox wolf.
When he sent this 350,000 sheep-headed demon army led by the legendary Amazon Evil Pact Sheen and the legendary mage Evil Pact Auguste to rush to the aid of the Sacalam Legion and began to plan the next attack on the harbor, he did not expect that his troops had just crossed the river when they were attacked by poisonous explosions from beneath the ground.
In fact, logically speaking, the hidden ground of the poisonous explosion insect cannot hide the perception of the legendary powerhouse, but the problem is that Sheen and August did not expect that the insect swarm would set up an ambush against them near the riverbank.
As a result, neither of them extended their perception below the ground, but kept looking ahead for the fastest way to reinforce the Sakaram Legion.
And so, the tragedy happened.
At the moment when a large number of sheep-headed demons had just stepped into the rainforest in front of the riverbank, countless wheel-shaped monsters covered with dark carapace and hard thorns bounced out from under the ground, and before the group of evil pacters in the sheep-headed demon group could react, a violent explosion occurred.
The dark green sour slurry accompanied by scattered bone splinters exploded in the unsuspecting sheep-headed demon army, and the swarm of five thousand poisonous explosive insects cleared a large clearing from the rainforest almost instantly.
Nearly 30,000 hedgehogs were killed on the spot by the flying acid and bone fragments, and more than 20,000 seriously injured sheep-headed demons fell to the ground and screamed miserably.
Before the reinforcements could do anything, they lost nearly one-seventh of their strength in an instant, and this sudden attack made the two legendary Evil Pact Cultivators in the sky who were following the Winged Demon Force almost go crazy.
In the following time, the speed of action of this sheep-headed demon army slowed down by half at once.
In order to avoid being ambushed by the poisonous explosion insects again, the two legendary cultivators opened their senses one after the other, and fully paid attention to all movements under the ground.
Moreover, the attack of the poisonous explosion insect just now also led to the death of more than a dozen evil pact people who were the demon commanders, and those who survived the evil pact saw the tragic death of their colleagues who were eroded by the acid and slowly melted under the attack of the poisonous explosion insects, and one by one they hid in the protective circle of the sheep-headed demon like frightened quails.
Compared to the two legendary pactists who only witnessed the tragic scene in the air, these ordinary pact people who had personally experienced the terrifying scene were obviously much more stimulated.
Under their influence, this demonic reinforcement force began to become a crowd, and the slightest abnormal noise in the rainforest would attract a frenzied attack of all kinds of skills.
Under these circumstances, it took the reinforcements a full hour to complete the half-hour journey that had been planned, and when they arrived at the meeting point with the Sakaram Legion, the sight before them once again stunned the two Legendary Cultivators.
I saw that the rainforest was a mess, the trees were falling, the land was upturned, and the smoke was still rising from a large number of trees around it.
In this huge clearing that seemed to have been burned alive, the originally powerful elite Sakaram Legion was now more than half killed or wounded.
A large number of charred corpses and various stumps and broken arms spread all over the forest, and the Winged Demon troops in the sky were even more scattered, leaving only two or three big cats and small cats.
The canopy of the rainforest was littered with the corpses of the dead Winged Demons, and the corpses of some of the Sakaram Legion demons were also scattered all over the branches.
The remaining Sakaram legions were only about 1780,000 left, and the pros and swarm troops who attacked them had been evacuated for a long time.
When the news was learned by the fox wolf and Mephisto, the former first pondered for a while, and then sighed suddenly, as if he was a teenager old.
The latter, as usual, was furious, but the loss did not stop Mephisto's ambitions to retake the seaport of Curast.
As the last bastion of human surveillance over the entire rainforest, the seaport of Kurast has become the last thorn in Mephisto's heart since Uri on the other side of the Wizarding Gap declared a lockdown.
And because of the counteroffensive plan of the Eternal Battlefield, if the First World can no longer involve enough human forces, then ending the Eternal War will be a clumsy joke.
So no matter what, Mephisto must retake the seaport of Kurast, at least by putting one more legion of troops into the rainforest!
He had once again sent a mixed army of various demons from Trivank with a whopping 350,000 of all kinds, and this time, he had added the Forgotten Legion and the Demon Mother troops that he had painstakingly obtained from the Second World to this unit.
This powerful demon hybrid is led by a total of seven Legendary Pact, including the six Legendary Pact who had abandoned the Sakaram Legion and fled.
This force, together with the 350,000 reinforcements sent by the fox wolf and the remaining more than 100,000 people of the Sakaram legion, the number of the demon's counterattack army has reached a staggering 850,000.
Moreover, because the fox wolf was severely warned by Mephisto, he was ready to exhaust the remnants of the Jikur army, and he personally led the siege battle that came to help Mephisto.
In this way, when the demon legion actually arrives under the seaport city of Kurast, the total strength is likely to exceed one million.
Among them, the number of Legendary Cultivators who led the army reached eleven (Kuya was left behind by the fox wolf to guard the gate in Jikul)!
Under the pressure of the army, the pressure on the professionals in the seaport of Kurast increased sharply, and even the joy of making peace with the Demon Slayer Legion and the Amazon of the Howorth Islands was suppressed by the pressure brought by the more than a million demon legions.
Several legendary powerhouses discussed feasible plans for defending the city in the headquarters overnight, and as the owner of the insect swarm that was the main force defending the city, Xue Hua was naturally invited into the command account as an invitee.