Under the light of the last afterglow of the setting sun, after the demon soldiers opened up the distance, they quickly retreated northward, and crossed the first mountain ridge north of Cangling City, but they did not have the slightest intention of stopping, but the relatively open valley in the north, and continued to go north.

Chen Hai and Cang Yi stood in mid-air, staring at the elite of the eight thousand Blue Scale Demon Guards, under the protection of the two thousand Winged Demon Elites, flowing northward like a surging black tide, the blood of the protective array was still intense, like a red demon fire burning in the twilight, it was so dazzling and shocking.

"Where are these demon soldiers going?" Zhou Wenwei, Chen Zhengqing, and Li Yongchang, the temporary commander of the defenders of Cangling City, flew to Chen Hai's side, watching the demon soldiers go north, and couldn't figure out Wu Zhen's intentions for a while.

"It should be going to Qinyang City!" Chen Hai said with a solemn expression.

"......" Zhou Wenwei and Chen Zhengqing were still groaning, and Li Yongchang's face suddenly became solemn.

He has been assigned to the Cangling Lake Taoist Academy for more than ten years, and he knows the situation near the Cangling River better than anyone else.

Qinyang City is six or seven hundred miles away, it is a human city conquered by Wu Zhen Old Demon before leading his troops to Rongling City - the scale of Qinyang City is much smaller than that of Rongling, only more than 200,000 mortals inhabit and reproduce, Wu Zhen Old Demon captured Qinyang City in three days, he did not slaughter much, and led his troops to come directly into Rongling City.

At this time, the residents of Qinyang City should have fled from the city, but for the mortals, even if they fled desperately, how far could they escape in three days in the mountains and wilderness?

Three or four hundred miles, or five or six hundred miles?

Wu Zhen Old Demon led this demon soldier, if the direction of retreat was Qinyang City as Chen Hai expected, it must be based on Qinyang City, on the one hand, waiting for the demon soldiers who were going south from the Jiuyuan Fortress gap to come over to meet, and on the other hand, the fleeing mortals were driven back to Qinyang City from the four wildernesses for their consumption.

Although Qinyang City is not a big city, within a radius of four or five hundred miles, there should be as many as one million ordinary people.

They survived the bloody battle just now, but in fact it is far from over, and there are more cruel and bloody tests waiting for them next.

It is not difficult for Chen Hai to guess the intentions of Wu Zhen's old demons, although the demon clan is cruel and tyrannical and likes to kill, but it has fought with the human race in the Haidong Great Array for hundreds of thousands of years, and it has not even been completely suppressed in the era of Liuyang Palace.

In this regard, Chen Hai has nothing to do, as long as it is possible, he will do everything in his power to save it, but they are heading east at this time, and they are burdened with greater responsibility.

There are 40,000 remnants in the city, less than one-fifth of them have the foundation of the Xuan Realm, and without war horses, not even some sturdy camels, it is impossible to go out of the city to pursue the elite of the Blue Scale Demon Guard.

These elite guards of the Green Scale Demons, all of them are five or six meters tall, with the amazing physical strength of the middle and late stage martial arts of the Spirit Clearing Realm, running for 1,7800 miles day and night without respite, mainly composed of the remnants of the mortal people, even if there are many people, why should they go out of the city to pursue the elite of the Green Scale Demon Guards?

There are tens of thousands of demon soldiers, there are winged demon elites, there are green scale demon guard elites, and there are great demon lord Wu Zhen commanders, six-headed demon Jiao plus eight demon marquis, the combat power is extremely strong, Chen Haidan led more than a thousand elite disciples of the Heavenly Crane Sect, and he is not qualified to catch up and entangle.

Chen Hai couldn't easily wipe out the elites of his subordinates, so he just asked Zhou Wenwei to send four teams of imperial bird elites to clamp down on the demon soldiers from the west flank, so that they did not dare to disperse, so that the mortals who had fled four or five hundred miles west would not be intercepted by the winged demons, but let them try to avoid fighting with the large group of winged demons, let alone easily approach the main force of the demon soldiers within two hundred miles.

Although Chen Hai was able to barely catch the three or five blows of the Great Demon Monarch Wu Zhen, the power and supernatural powers of the three realms in the Heavenly Demon were difficult for the disciples of the Dao Dan and Ming Realm to guess.

When he arrived in Qinyang City, it was already early in the morning.

The Terran city is too small for the tall demons, and the streets three or four zhang wide are considered the main streets in Qinyang City, and most of the dense alleys like spider webs are only seven or eight feet wide.

There is a lesson from the past, the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen ordered all the soldiers and horses to enter the city and garrison, but it is a pity that the mortals in Qinyang City fled and left more than a thousand old, weak, sick and disabled, and they all had a sour and tough chew, which was not delicious at all.

And the disciples of the Four or Five Hundred Heavenly Crane Sect were active in the west wing, and the Great Demon Lord Wu really didn't want to make any extraneous branches, so he divided a small group of demon soldiers, went north, east, and plundered the mortals from the ravines and ravines, and drove them to Qinyang City.

With the eight demon marquis under him, he transformed into a human body, and walked into the main hall of the city guard's mansion, the great demon lord and witch were really in a bad mood.

It went south from the gap in the Nine Plains, confirming that the troops and horses led by the Terran Yuanyang Sect in charge of Qin Hushan were at an absolute disadvantage, and they could only take advantage of the steep terrain at the west entrance of the Lock Dragon Sect to block the four million main forces led by Shang Mu and the Great Demon Lord of Qiushan in the depths of Murowei Mountain, which also made this group of Terran soldiers and horses not dare to retreat west at all.

At this time, the Terran soldiers and horses in the Northern Court also collapsed one after another and fled without a fight, and the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen thought that there would be no threat in the eastern part of the Northern Court, so he relaxed the constraints on the Demon Lords and Demon Marquis under his hands, and even allowed them to go deep into the hinterland of the Terran to have a full meal first, improve their strength, and then gather together to attack Qinhu Mountain, the back road of the Terran race.

It didn't expect to encounter Chen Hai in Cangling City.

At present, the four or five hundred thousand demon soldiers under its command are divided into five divisions under the leadership of the five demon lords, although they have all gone south from the gap in the Nine Plains, but they can't wait to disperse to the south of the Nine Plains Fortress to prey on the flesh and blood of living beings.

The Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen rushed to Qinyang City and got the exact news that the five demon soldiers were all gathered in the south of Jiuyuan Sai, and it would take at least four or five days, and the fastest demon soldiers at that time would also need to be able to rush to Qinyang City to meet them after fifteen days, and the main demon soldiers would need twenty days or even longer to arrive at Qinyang City.

Twenty days is enough time for too many variables to happen.

It is not very clear what Chen Hai's intentions are to suddenly appear here, but Chen Hai is the commander of the Beiling Army who defeated the demon clan of Tiancheng Mountain, and he will not easily advance eastward, even if he contacts Qin Hushan and others, it will not be the turn of such a person to go out in person, but if Chen Hai is coming to help Qin Hushan, then Chen Hai must have more powerful reinforcements behind him, and he may fight from west to east at any time.

Although the Great Demon Lord of Shang Mu agreed to transfer 10,000 elite Wing Demons over first and listen to its dispatch, the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen did not have the slightest ease, if the combat strength of a large number of elite reinforcements of the Terran Race exceeded its imagination and arrived at the shore of Rongling Lake in advance, it would have to flee in the wilderness at that time.

The Demon Race already has an absolute advantage on the Eastern Front, and it is really humiliating for it to be killed by a small group of Terran elites as a great demon lord, and it is also scolding Yan Yu and those two fools in his heart at this time.

If it weren't for these two fools underestimating the enemy, resulting in the destruction of five million elite demon soldiers in Tiancheng Mountain, at this time, the Northern Court, and even the Northwest Domain, which was stronger and more resourceful, might have become their blood food ground.

Now it has to add so many twists and turns.

Even if the scouts had not yet infiltrated the vicinity of Zibai Mountain, from Chen Hai leading his troops eastward, the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen could also imagine that after the three sects in the northwest and the Beiling army won the great victory of the Demon Zhangling Mountains, their disciples, soldiers and civilians should have walked out of the trough of the rout on the eastern front, and at this time, they should actively deploy a defensive line on the front line of Zibai Mountain.

Because the Three Sects and the Beiling Army, plus Yanzhou, which was run by the remnants of Liuyang Palace, could almost gather seven or eight million elite soldiers and horses, this made them even if they successfully won the Northern Court, they would not dare to easily approach Zibai Mountain until the Black Flame Great Demon Venerable completely captured Yongjing.

This will give the three sects of the Northwest Regions a chance to rest and recuperate for three or four years, and at the same time, the human races Tiannan and Yue in the Haidong Continent will inevitably send troops from the Hengduan Mountains and Yunling, and there will be a lot of variables at that time......

Thinking of this, the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen was distraught, and summoned the other five Demon Lords, their slow movements had become a fact, and they couldn't be sure, so let them first send their Winged Demon Elite, Demon Jiao and other airmobile soldiers to Qinyang City as quickly as possible to listen to its dispatch.

In this way, in five days, it would be able to gather 20,000 Winged Demon Elites and more than 20 Demon Jiao in Qinyang City, and as long as the Terran reinforcements did not arrive and joined up with the 8,000 Green Scale Demon Guards, it could also try to attack Cangling City once.

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Chen Hai and the others knew that the demon calamity had not been solved, but the mortals in Cangling City fell into a frenzy of rebirth.

Chen Hai was not in a hurry to arrange for the mortal people in the city to retreat to the west, the speed of the mortal people's retreat was too slow, even if they went west for an extra thousand or two thousand miles, it was meaningless at all, after all, they had to go to the west of Zibai Mountain in the end, so that they could be considered temporarily safe.

And Chen Hai's most fundamental purpose was to give the entire Northern Court a chance for more mortals to escape to the west of Zibai Mountain, so he would use Cangling City to spend as much time as possible with the elite demon soldiers who had entered the eastern region of the Northern Court.

The mortals in Cangling City are actually the few resources he can call.

Cangling City is the seat of the county, and the four sects of the Northern Court have all set up Taoist academies to teach Taoism, even if almost all the Xuan Xiu disciples above the Spirit Realm have escaped, but the military potential of Cangling City should not be underestimated.

On the one hand, Cangling City, as the city of county governance, as the economic, political, cultural, and even political and military forces within a radius of thousands of miles, is itself one of the most concentrated forces of the clans; and after the collapse of the Tashan defense line, the large and small clans in the county fled west as soon as possible, and also fled into Cangling City for the first time to wait and see the situation.

When the defenders of Cangling City knew that Zhao Xuanyang had abandoned the Jiuyuan Fortress and fled, and a large number of demon soldiers went directly south from the gap in the Jiuyuan Fortress, the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen had already led his troops to capture Qinyang City, which was six or seven hundred miles away, and at this time, there were almost seven or eight hundred thousand clan children who were drowned in Cangling City.

At this time, the defenders and clan children fled, but it was too late, and in the end, except for those clan elders and backbones who could ride spirit birds, spirit horses, and cross mountains and rivers like covering the ground, a large number of other clan children, and most of the defenders' generals, failed to escape three or four hundred miles away, and were intercepted by the demon soldiers, and had to be driven back to Cangling City.

The Northern Court is the same as the Northwest Regions, the clan monopolizes the cultivation resources, and only one out of two or three thousand people in the ordinary Han Sect and the ordinary people of the village and the wilderness has the opportunity to cultivate the crude martial arts or the Xuanfa, and in the clan, even if they are from the side lineage, as long as the qualifications are slightly passable, they will basically be cultivated.

In fact, there are almost fifty or sixty thousand clan disciples who were intercepted in Cangling City who have the cultivation foundation of the Xuan Realm - in comparison, the children of the people who have some cultivation foundation almost all serve as elite generals in the army, and they also use this as a means to make a living, and in addition to the remnants of the defenders, there are few people among the people who have a cultivation foundation.

However, among the three million ordinary people in the city, if you choose those with excellent arm strength and strong body, there can also be two or three hundred thousand strong people who can be organized......

In addition, thousands of miles along the coast of Rongling Lake south of Cangling City, including several lakes and islands in Cangling Lake, there are millions of mortals who inhabit and breed, and they have become frightened birds at this time, some people will choose to flee west, and some people may flee to Cangling City when they see them guarding the city.

To the east of Cangling City, along the Cangling River, until nearly 20,000 miles to the western foot of the Murowei Mountain, there should be a large number of mortals, driven by the vanguard soldiers and horses sent by the demon soldiers on the eastern front and the miscellaneous demons, are frantically fleeing westward.

Cangling City, as the only way for hundreds of millions of ordinary people in the Cangling River basin to flee westward, there will be a wave of refugees at any time, and there are even quite a lot of remnants of the defeated generals, as well as some clans at the western foot of the Murwei Mountain will escape all the way, Chen Hai thought to himself that if he could make good use of Cangling City, it would not be impossible to turn around with the demon clan for two years or even longer!

And Cangling City as the county of ten thousand miles, the defenders were defeated without a fight, and it was delusional to say that there were any high-end goods in the arsenal, but there was no shortage of swords, halberds, and even ordinary bows and crossbows;

After learning more details about Cangling City and the middle and upper reaches of the Cangling River from Li Yongchang, Chen Hai said: "All the clan children in the city who have a foundation of cultivation and are over the age of twelve, as well as all the soldiers and clans who have withdrawn from the west and the clan children who pass through Cangling City in the eastern part of the Northern Court, all need to be incorporated into the army, and those who violate it will be immediately killed. In addition, from the recruitment of 200,000 people as reserve soldiers and horses, fill in the army formation at any time - the next battle, it will be very cruel, I don't know if I can survive to the end, but for all the defenders, the biggest promise I can make is that I will directly use the Wind Flame Airship to be the first to arrange for their families to evacuate to the west of Zibai Mountain!"