Qu Yunyang and Fan Moyou hurried back to the city lord's mansion in Hongchang City, without any hesitation, Qu Yunyang immediately ordered the four generals who remained in the city to divide into four routes and go to the four city gates to defend.

The Demon Realm Army, Ye Wuyue and Tang Luo each led 20 million troops to attack Linghai City and Gyeongju County, while Qu Yunyang himself left only 10 million to guard Hongchang City.

Because there is the Xiaoshui River as the boundary, Qu Yunyang does not plan to take the initiative to attack, if it is just a defense, 10 million troops are enough.

Recently, because the army of Xiyu Kingdom has repeatedly tried to cross the river, Qu Yunyang asked Yuwen Junxiong and Tang Yuansi to lead four million each and station on the bank of the Xiaoshui River to strictly defend and not dare to be careless, so that Hongchang City will only have two million troops left as the defenders.

The two million defenders of the city, Qu Yunyang never thought that they would be used to fight, after all, as long as the Xiaoshui River was not broken through, the real army was just a reserve army, one to maintain the order of Hongchang City, and the other was to train with new recruits and constantly expand their ranks.

As the war continues for longer and longer, in fact, both the Demon Realm and the Western Rain Country have gradually become difficult to recruit soldiers.

With the expansion of the army again and again, how can there be so many soldiers?

At the beginning, conscription also needed to select strong people, and later the requirements were lowered, as long as they reached the age they could be levied, and then later, the younger ones, or the older ones, were also drafted.

In this way, the quality of the recruits is inferior to that of a group, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, and there is only an advantage in numbers.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the front, 80 percent of Qu Yunyang's 2 million troops left in Hongchang City were new recruits, and only 20 percent were veterans.

Now the troops were divided into four routes, that is, 500,000 troops on each road, and they all hurried to the city gates, intending to stop the attacking enemy troops from the city gates.

But will they be in time?

When Qu Yunyang found that something was wrong at the top of Shennong Mountain, there was a commotion from the river temple in the north, and a white dragon appeared from the moat, causing a panic among the people, and thus exclaimed.

The white dragon appeared, and Qu Yunyang immediately remembered the little white dragon who went to rescue Qu Lingfei with Liu Tingfeng.

His appearance meant that Liu Tingfeng was very likely to repeat his old tricks and secretly sneak into their rear again, preparing to launch a sneak attack.

Qu Yunyang immediately returned to the City Lord's Mansion to organize the army to defend the city, and he hoped that time would still be in time.

When he returned to the City Lord's Mansion, the people here saw the white dragon appear, and after a period of panic and chaos, they found that the white dragon did not mean to hurt themselves, but only seemed to feel their piety, so they just appeared.

So all the people knelt down and prayed for protection at the white dragon.

A dragon roared, and the white dragon soared into the air, and after making a circle along the moat, it flew high into the sky, and soon disappeared into the sky.

On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head, and the people worshiped every year, and the past from generation to generation was just a legend.

Unexpectedly, this time, they really saw the dragon raising its head, and the people were kneeling and begging one after another-

"The dragon manifests, begging to bless us with good weather and abundant harvests!"

"The Dragon King has appeared, begging to end this war as soon as possible and return us to a peaceful world!"

"Pray that the dragon will bless us with more than one year and a safe year!"

"Begging the Dragon King to bless us with good health and stay away from disaster!"

……

While the people were praying for protection, a dragon came from the distant sky—

"The root of the war, the invasion of the demon world, want to be peaceful, work together to expel the demon army!"

Although the sound in the air is not loud, it makes people feel deafening.

In the eyes of the people, this is the instruction of the gods, how dare they disobey, so they all said in unison-

"Work together to expel the demon army!"

"Work together to expel the demon army!"

"Work together to expel the demon army!"

……

More than two million people shouted in unison, and the sound was deafening and resounded in the sky.

At this moment, someone said loudly:

"Storm the city and banish the demons!"

After saying that, he took the lead in rushing into the city gate, and someone took the lead, and immediately countless people broke in together.

Three of the four gates had a large number of people rushing in, and only the east gate had no one taking the lead, so there was no movement for the time being.

It turned out that the person who took the lead in rushing in was Liu Tingfeng's army, they were mixed in the ranks of the people, and they had already come to the city gate, while the people were worshipping the river god, the little white dragon turned into a dragon, which brought a great shock to the people, and then created a good reason, and then led the army to rush into the city.

Three teams, each with 200,000 people, one led by Liu Tingfeng, one led by the Tiger King, and one led by the little white dragon who turned into a human body here, broke in from the south gate, the west gate and the north gate at the same time.

Only outside the east gate was close to the Xiaoshui River, and there was a demon army over there, so they didn't attack from that side, which was considered to give them an exit to escape.

There were three armies in the lead, and many enthusiastic people also poured in, basically all of them were young people, only those who were old, weak, sick and disabled, under the leadership of the priest who presided over the sacrificial activities, left the city gate far away, avoiding this dangerous place.

Soon after the three armies rushed in, they met the army from the demon world, met in a narrow way, and soon fought together, the defenders each had 500,000, but most of them were new recruits, and the combat effectiveness was not high, and although the army of Xiyu was only 200,000, they were all elite divisions.

The battle situation at the entrances of the three city gates is basically the same.

When the battle was raging, three more armies came outside the three city gates, and these three armies were not ordinary human soldiers but an army of demon beasts from the Great Barren Mountain.

Each demon beast army has about 50,000 demon beasts.

At this moment, the people who rushed into the city gate were the lion army, the tiger army and the leopard army, and the three armies of the lion, tiger and leopard were all in unison, and the momentum was extremely amazing.

Soon after the three demon beast armies rushed into Hongchang City, they were followed by a 50,000 demon beast army, led by the bewitching snake clan leader and the murderous wolf clan leader.

The people in the distance saw an army of demon beasts coming, and they were so frightened that they retreated more than ten miles again.

The people had never seen such a scene, and they were all trembling with fright, until the army had completely rushed into Hongchang City, and no one was extremely nervous to talk about it-

"Are these the legendary armies of monsters? Why are they here too? ”

"yes, doesn't that mean they never go out of the Great Wilderness Mountain? Why did they all come out this time? ”

"When they come out, are they helping the Western Rain Country or the Demon Realm Army?"

"Why do you have to help one of them? Maybe they will also compete for the world and have their own faction! ”

"In my opinion, they don't seem to have any malice, they passed in front of us, and they didn't hurt anyone, maybe they helped us."

"Will they help us? They're monsters, they eat people! ”

"As soon as the Divine Dragon appeared, they appeared, maybe the Divine Dragon assigned them to help us expel the Demon Realm army!"

"That seems to make sense!"

……

The people in the distance could only whisper far away, and the relatives who were waiting for them to rush in with fear did not know if they would be harmed.

Many people are worried, how many people will be able to return?

And the battle in the city was already a one-sided situation, but when the army of 200,000 demon beasts arrived, the advantage was even more obvious.

Originally, it was the army of the West Rain Country that rushed to the front, and the people just followed behind to make up the number, and from a distance, it seemed that the army of the West Rain Country also had four or five hundred thousand.

The army of the Demon Realm that is retreating one after another is almost always being slaughtered.

On the roof of the City Lord's Mansion, Demon Venerable Qu Yunyang couldn't help but sigh deeply.

It's a sneak attack again, and it's Liu Tingfeng's old trick again, but it still has a miraculous effect.

He looked at the battles in three directions, and it was his own army suffering from this massacre, and immediately said to Fan Moyou, the military advisor beside him:

"Order a retreat, the general trend has gone, we will withdraw from the east gate and converge with the armies of Yuwen Junxiong and Tang Yuansi, maybe there is still the strength of a battle."

Fan Moyou nodded with a solemn expression and replied:

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After saying that, he immediately sent an order down, so that the rear army of the three armies began to turn around and withdraw towards the east city gate.

At this time, beside Qu Yunyang, in addition to the military advisor Fan Moyou, there was also a cold and glamorous woman, who was Dugu Qianmo who went to the Great Wilderness Mountain to chase and kill Liu Tingfeng.

Of course, there are still many Ouchi guards and Praetorian Guards guarding the shadows.

After a while, after Qu Yunyang adjusted his mentality, he said in a calm tone:

"Let's leave too, go to the east gate to meet Yuwen Junxiong and Tang Yuansi."

With that, he took the lead and left, and the rest of the people naturally followed, in addition to the Ouchi guards and the Praetorian Guards, there was also a team of civil and military officials who also left the City Lord's Mansion together.

When the sun set, the army of the Demon Realm retreated outside the East City Gate, and there were only about one million left of the two million army.

This is all because the terrain in the city is narrow, and the battle area is not wide enough to be used, and if it is in an open area, there may not even be a million left.

After this million-strong army merged with the armies of Yuwen Junxiong and Tang Yuansi, there were nine million.

In the middle of the Xiaoshui River to Hongchang City, there is a vast plain, near the Xiaoshui River, there is also the magnificent river temple and a temple complex, Qu Yunyang temporarily took the river temple as a base camp, with there as the center, carried out a strict defense.

Liu Tingfeng's army also turned to the place of the East City Gate, and saw from a distance that the army of the Demon Realm had converged in one place, and was deployed in accordance with a strict formation, with a posture of being ready for battle, and immediately ordered to temporarily stop the attack, but returned to Hongchang City, first reorganized, and after being fully prepared, he would consider attacking the Demon Army.

Qu Yunyang, who was standing on the railing on the third floor of the River Temple, saw Liu Tingfeng leading the army back to the city, and there were still a large army of demon beasts among them, he couldn't help but sigh:

"Unite with the demon beast army, they are more like the demon army than us!"