Chapter 596: Breakthrough of the Front
And at this time, the offensive of the demon army has been launched in waves.
But this time, they finally learned their lesson, and they no longer dared to squeeze together densely, but scattered.
Some of them are so strong that they simply throw off all their comrades and rush alone.
Some demons don't have such a long strength and such a big courage, so they form a team in groups of three or five.
There are also the most daring demon babies, basically dozens of them, anyway, such a target, such a waste of troops will not provoke a terrible spell strike.
Of course, a large number of siege engines also began to advance from behind, ready to launch an attack on the front at any time.
And at this time, Za Gulang finally saw the situation behind the city wall through the gap, and then he couldn't help but change his face, and then he scolded directly: "These damn bastards, they are so cunning!"
It turned out that the terrain behind the city walls, which was originally relatively open, has now completely changed, occupied by moats, layers of walls, and from time to time very strong fortresses will appear.
The nearest layer of the city wall, only a kilometer or two away from the breach, roughly formed a semicircle, completely enclosing the breach, and all the demons that came in through the gap had to withstand attacks from all directions.
First of all, it is naturally a large number of alchemy artillery, although the position of the demon legion is relatively sparse, but there are too many people pouring in, and there is still attack value after all.
And within one or two kilometers, the shooting of the alchemy cannon is still relatively accurate, and it can be accurately shot at those who are in a group, or the demons who are larger.
The other is the siege crossbow, which may not be as powerful as the alchemy artillery, but the accuracy is even higher, and it is an excellent weapon for killing small demons.
As long as the other party is a little closer, at a distance of two or three hundred meters, experienced veterans can basically do every shot.
In this case, the demon army was immediately caught off guard, and it was crossbow arrows and artillery, and it came from all directions, it was difficult to dodge and resist, so there were a lot of losses soon.
And as time passed, the masters of the demon army and some cannon fodder also approached the city walls, thinking that these short city walls would soon be breached by them, but they didn't expect that this time they hit the iron plate headlong.
Whether it is a silver-level Nightmare Knight or a terrifying Fire Demon, as long as they are close to the city wall, they will immediately withstand the sniping of powerhouses of the same level, and the number is two or three times more than them, and even the attributes are compatible.
Coupled with the interference of heavy crossbows and alchemy artillery, the high-level demons who were alone were even more of an opponent, and they were quickly killed by these silver-level warriors who cooperated tacitly.
It turned out that these people were all sent by Emperor Shi Tian, and among them were not only alchemy warriors, but also many high-ranking warriors above the silver level.
In fact, this kind of ferocious siege warfare has great casualties and extremely high risks, and those local indigenous masters are not very willing to come.
However, Emperor Shi Tian gave them a guarantee, as long as they bravely killed the enemy and were injured, they could get free treatment, and if they died in battle, they could even be treated by the resurrection technique, and they would also be given extremely high rewards and honors.
As soon as they heard the word resurrection, those powerhouses above the silver level were instantly filled with courage.
Although the resurrection conditions of the resurrection technique are not particularly perfect, most of the corpses such as the head and torso must be resurrected, and once the corpse is broken or decapitated, there is no way to resurrect it.
But despite this, the local indigenous masters are also enthusiastically signing up and competing to be on the front line of the battle.
One is because they are all locals and it is incumbent upon them to fight to protect their homeland, especially when there are no worries, this idea is even more urgent.
Another reason is that senior fighters often have fixed squads and have a high level of trust in each other, so as to ensure that they can be picked up by their comrades after they die in battle, and will not be spoiled by demons, so that they have a chance to resurrect.
And it is true that the team composed of these warriors is very active, and it is especially easy to release the command of the Heavenly Emperor, only looking for those hard bones to gnaw, and they always have to face the high-level demons above the silver level.
Since the strength of the local warriors is not particularly strong, even if they have the advantage of numbers, and are supported by heavy crossbows and alchemy artillery, they often have to pay a certain price to kill the opponent.
Although in most cases, this cost ends with a few serious injuries, there are also cases of on-the-spot deaths, and even non-stop occurrence on the vast battlefield.
The fierce battle only lasted for more than ten minutes, and nearly 20 silver-level corpses were received behind, a small half of which were alchemy warriors, and most of them were warrior corpses.
Originally, in this case, the limited resurrection technique should be used to resurrect those troops with the strongest combat power, that is, alchemy warriors.
However, out of appropriate considerations, Emperor Shi Tian chose to give priority to the resurrection of the warriors, and let the resurrected people be sent to the back to recuperate from their injuries, so that everyone could see this scene.
As for the corpses of those alchemy warriors, Emperor Shi Tian ordered to be frozen for the time being, to see the situation, and then decide whether to resurrect or not.
After all, the battle here is too fierce, and the alchemy angels must maintain a complete combat power of 200, so the alchemy angels that can be used to resurrect are only a few dozen in the hands of Emperor Shitian.
This forced Emperor Shi Tian to carefully consider the use of the resurrection technique.
Looking at the entire battlefield, although the demon army had a large number of soldiers and also fought into the city walls, it was obviously restricted by the terrain and was wiped out on a large scale, and more than 100,000 people did not hold on, and in two or three hours, it was almost gone.
Za Gulang also understood at this time, Emperor Shi Tian simply dug a pit for him to jump, and the three gaps looked very good, but in fact they were all traps, and it was difficult to come out as long as he went in.
However, the legendary demon Zagulang also had no good choice at this time, and if he didn't attack from these three places, he had to choose another direction of attack.
Elsewhere, however, the terrain was either too high to attack, or the terrain ahead was too narrow to deploy a large number of troops.
If you want to break through such a place, you have to wait too much for both time and troops.
And what Zagulang lacked most now was time, because he already knew that the students of the Heavenly God Academy were here to support.
And the fact that the students of the Celestial God Academy have flying fortresses, as well as private troops, is not news at all.
As long as these students are given enough time, then they will be able to bring in a steady stream of troops and supplies, and at that time, it will be impossible to defeat them with Zagulang alone.
So at this time, Zagulang's only choice is to take advantage of the students' unstable foothold and kill them all with absolute overwhelming force.
And once the time is delayed for too long, it is very easy to have accidents, and it can even be said that the longer the time, the greater the possibility of accidents.
So, Zagulang squinted his eyes, thought for a while, and resolutely gave the order to carry out an endless onslaught.
The demon legion that received the order immediately became furious, spontaneously divided into waves of echelons, and directly killed the three gaps.
There are eighty or ninety thousand demons in each wave of offensive echelons, and the most important thing is that every thirty minutes there are new echelons departing, regardless of whether the demons in front of them are consumed or not.
Anyway, Zagulang also saw the results of his army, and Emperor Shitian's side was not without losses.
In the first battle just now, although Emperor Shitian's subordinates easily wiped out those demons, they were still killed in battle, more than 20 silver-level masters, and thousands of warriors at other levels.
The most important thing is that the ten-meter low city wall could not stop the onslaught of the demon army at all, and there were gaps in many places.
Some were inadvertently destroyed by the Silver Demon during the battle, others were broken by the Bronze-level Demon Elite Soldiers, and some places were even simply smashed by the Little Devil's fireball technique.
And this time, there are really a lot of places where the low wall has collapsed, and there are more than a dozen or 20 places.
You must know that in the fierce attack, every collapse is a gap, which is equivalent to breaking a pretty good defense line into a broken fishing net, as long as the follow-up troops are strong enough, they can easily poke into it.
It is precisely because of this that Zagulang made up his mind to carry out a decisive battle and recklessly attacked these three points.
And what he didn't know was that his current mentality of gambling was actually deliberately created for him by Emperor Shi Tian.
Emperor Shi Tian had already calculated this guy's psychological thoughts, and knew that he wanted to fight quickly, so he deliberately made the first line of defense fragile, revealing a large number of loopholes, so as to attract the opponent to attack with all his might.
Now it seems that Emperor Shitian's plan has succeeded again, and Zagulang has basically blocked everything.
Although they were afraid of being attacked by battle spells, the demon legions did not dare to be too crowded, and they all entered in batches.
However, the continuous charge also involved a large number of troops, and in these three gaps alone, Zagulang invested about 300,000 demon legions at one time, and another 300,000 an hour later, until he completely won.
Seeing the demon legion slaughtering violently, Emperor Shi Tian was not surprised, and immediately issued an order, so that the artillery behind kept bombarding, while the defenders on the front line fled with various siege equipment.
Since the road behind it was all leveled by earth monks, even a heavy alchemy cannon could be easily pulled around after a wheeled gun carriage.
Coupled with the fact that the offensive and retreat had been rehearsed in advance, the retreat went exceptionally smoothly, and in less than ten minutes there was no one on the first line, and after another 20 minutes of marching, they came to the second line of defense.
To tell the truth, in fact, there is not much difference between the second line of defense and the first line of defense, the interval is more than a thousand meters, it is also semicircular, except that the defense line is longer, even the height and architectural style are the same.
(End of chapter)