Chapter 974: Stalemate

Cangling City won again, and Chen Hai ordered Zhou Wenwei and Chen Zhengqing to lead the elite generals of the Longxiang Divine Bird Battalion to follow Fu Shaoqun and Qin Qian eastward, approaching the Chilong Ridge in the middle of the western foot of the Murowei Mountains, and responding to the Northwest Qinwang Army that held the Chiying Peak.

Although the demon clan still gathered 40,000 Winged Demon elites in the Red Dragon Ridge, it was far from being able to compete with the Longxiang Divine Bird Battalion with only more than seven hundred horses, and the Longxiang Divine Bird Battalion did not dare to approach the Red Dragon Ridge too closely, and circled six or seven hundred miles away, but it also forced the Winged Demons to shrink back from the vast area at the western foot of the Murwei Mountain, and there was no way to completely block the passage between the Red Shadow Peak and the outside world.

Chiying Peak is backed by the large basin of Yuzhou, and it is the defense line that Beiting has operated for many years, the defenders retreated without a fight, but the grain and grass and some ordinary ordnance were abandoned.

However, not to mention the Xuanyang heavy crossbow, the heavenly machine chariot and other heavenly machine weapons, the elixir and defensive talisman have also been consumed, and the Xuanbing spirit armor spirit sword magic weapon in the hands of the generals in the army and the elite of the sword cultivation battalion has been damaged in a large number of vicious battles that have broken out frequently, and they have not been replenished at all, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Demon Punishment Array has been overloaded several times, and the loss of the array is also extremely serious, and it cannot be repaired in time, and it cannot even exert one-third of the power at the beginning at this time, which constantly weakens the combat effectiveness and morale of the Northwest Qinwang Army.

On the one hand, there are some consumables such as elixirs and defensive talismans that are in short supply, which can be replenished in time, and on the other hand, the threat of the back road is temporarily eliminated, and the morale of the sergeants and morale is greatly boosted.

At this moment, to the west of the Red Shadow Peak, in the depths of the Dragon Slaying Valley, there was a black stone peak standing lonely in the middle of the canyon.

At this moment, at the top of the stone peak, the black mist like the demon demon is churning, revealing a wave of angry and violent aura, which makes the demon soldiers and demon generals under the stone peak silent, for fear that if they miss a little, they will be noticed by the demon lord on the top of the stone peak, and their lives are worried.

On the top of the stone peak wrapped in black mist is a stone platform with a radius of two or three hundred zhang, more than 20 demon lord-level trolls are sitting or standing or squatting or standing on the stone platform, and the two demon lords of Shang Mu and Qiu Shan are sitting high on two huge stone chairs, their hideous faces twitching slightly......

They could never have imagined that under the leadership of the three demon lords of Wu Zhen, Ji Du and Shen Tu, the elite of nearly 100,000 demon soldiers gathered would be killed and defeated again under Cangling City, and even the casualties in the first two bloody battles would be even more tragic.

On the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of miles wide between the human and demon races, the loss of eighty or ninety thousand demon soldiers in a battle looks sparse and mediocre, after all, they have gained such a big advantage on the Eastern Front, in addition to the follow-up There will be a steady stream of elite demon soldiers from the depths of the demon domain near the Death God Abyss to the south to replenish the consumption, a large number of miscellaneous demons and those weak demon cubs in the demon clans of the various tribes can grow up quickly by preying on the flesh and blood of the human race, but at this moment, it makes Shang Mu and Qiu Shan feel extremely tricky.

Previously, the plan of hoping that the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen could lead his troops to attack the Northwest Qinwang Hou Road and open the gap in the Red Shadow Peak failed, not to mention, Cangling City fought three bloody battles, causing them to lose more than 20,000 Winged Demon Elites at the western foot of the Murwei Mountain, although there were no 40,000 Winged Demon Elites gathered in the Red Dragon Ridge at this time, there was no way to completely block the Red Shadow Peak from the west.

Otherwise, even if the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen couldn't lead his troops to attack the back road of the Northwest Qinwang Army, and there would be two or three months of attrition, they would be confident that they would take the Red Shadow Peak, and when the time came, they would lead the main force of four million demon soldiers into the Northern Court, as long as they didn't approach Zibai Mountain, they would be able to slaughter them wantonly......

It's good now, their hopes of entering the Northern Court from Suolong Cheng in a short period of time have almost been shattered, and every day that drags on, two or three million Terrans will withdraw from the Northern Court into the Northwest Domain, if they delay for a year or two, they will not get any benefit from entering the Northern Court, but they will have to face the three powerful Northwest Sects, how will they deal with it when the time comes?

Although Shang Mu and Qiushan Two Demons didn't think that the Three Northwest Sects would survive to the end, the problem was that if they waited for the Black Flame Great Demon Venerable to free up their hands and lead the main force to attack the Northwest Regions, what benefits would they still get from Xuanyin Valley in the end?

"The situation can't be delayed like this any longer, now it seems that Red Shadow Peak will not be able to capture in a short period of time, and there is no point in continuing to consume here, I think we have to find a way from other places. The Great Demon Monarch Qiu Shan Urn said.

Shang Mu frowned, and it took a long time before he said slowly: "Thousands of miles from east to west and tens of thousands of miles from north to south of Murowei Mountain, the only way that can be used for large-scale use of troops is this lock dragon trap. Before, I thought that the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen led his troops south, and Qin Hushan's department would collapse soon, and he didn't make any other plans, but now in a hurry, he has to make a detour from the south, not to mention wasting a year's time......"

Qiu Shan also knew all this that Shang Mu said.

The Murwei Mountain stretches for tens of thousands of miles, and it is not the only road that locks the dragon trap, but the other roads are even narrower and more dangerous, and the thirty or fifty thousand demon soldiers may be able to barely pass through, but the human race has won the initiative at the western foot of the Murwei Mountain, and they send thirty or fifty thousand demon soldiers over each time, isn't it to send food to the human race to eat?

But in any case, this state of affairs cannot continue for now......

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Six or seven thousand miles east of Cangling City, a team of seven or eight thousand people was winding west along a river.

The scale of this team is not large, and most of them are also low-level disciples who do not have the ability to fly against the wind or even ordinary people who have not even cultivated themselves, but there are a large number of low-level spirit horses such as Wei Mountain, who are good at walking dangerous mountain paths, and have extremely strong endurance, as well as two or three hundred low-level spirit horses such as green cunning horses and black cunning horses, and the speed of progress is not slow.

The two leaders each rode a demon tiger, one was high-crowned and emei, the other was clear-faced, and both of them had divine light in their eyes.

The midday sun was dazzling, and the leaves on the roadside were curling under the heat wave, not to mention the people who had been on the run for months.

Seeing that everyone's steps were getting heavier and heavier, the high-crowned monk said, "Senior Brother Xing, it's already noon, and I haven't seen any trace of the Rakshasa Demon Clan these days, so let's everyone take a rest." ”

The clear-faced monk naturally saw all this in his eyes, this escape was a long journey, if the rush was too hasty, the six or seven thousand people behind did not know how many people would be able to complete the journey.

Within a radius of 100 miles, except for some scattered miscellaneous demons predating in the mountains and wilderness, there were no large-scale demon soldiers, so Xing surnamed Daodan Xuanxiu asked the team to stop, each find a place to rest in the shade, and wait for the sun to go a little west before hitting the road.

After the order was given, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and some of the half-grown men even jumped into the river with their clothes on their sleeves in order to cool off faster. Seeing a young man emerging from the bottom of the river, grabbing a six-foot-long, three-to-four-hundred-pound black-backed fish with both hands like iron tongs, watching the black-backed fish struggle hard, slapping the waves and rolling, Xing's surname Daodan Xuanxiu rarely showed a smile.

Their sect is called Ziyun Valley, and it is a small sect of loose cultivation located in the deep mountains on the south side of Suolongyun - the sect leader Xing Haobo has a late cultivation of the Dao Dan Realm.

After the collapse of the Tashan defense line, they didn't want to say that they were unwilling to abandon the low-level children of the Tongxuan Realm who couldn't control the weapon and fly against the wind, and they were not even willing to abandon the family members who had not cultivated, and they were worried that they would flee directly from the Suolong Cheng to the west, and they would inevitably run through the elite of the demon clan who were like a torrent moving westward. The relatives fled directly south into the depths of the Murowei Mountain to temporarily avoid the edge of the demon soldiers, and then after several tosses and turns in the deep mountains and old forests, and finally stepped out of the Murowei Mountain more than ten days ago, and continued to flee westward.

In the deep mountains and dangerous gorges, after a few months, most of them are still lowly cultivators of the Xuan Realm and mortals, at this moment they are also ragged and exhausted, if they don't stop to rest, most people's bodies will be directly dragged down.

Xing Haobo sat under a big tree, paying attention to every move around him with his keen sense, and the monk wearing a high crown came over and said: "Senior Brother Xing, Zhou Yang, they went out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and sent back the news that Cangling City has hit the attack of the demon clan several times, and there are a large number of elites gathered there at this time, are we going to Cangling City, so we can have something to rely on?"

There are still eighty or ninety thousand miles to go to Zibai Mountain, and they don't know how many demon soldiers from the Dajin Mountain in the north have entered the territory of Beiting, so they think if they can go to Cangling City to settle down temporarily, and rest for a while so that they can better continue their journey.

Xing Haobo was cautious, and when the few disciples who went out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation came back, and asked in detail about the situation in Cangling City, he directly extinguished the idea of temporarily settling in Cangling City......

Beiling Marquis Chen Hai was able to win three battles and three victories in Cangling City, mainly to intercept all the defeated generals and clan children who fled west through Cangling City into the defending army, and then used the sacrifice of millions of defenders to annihilate 100,000 demon soldiers.

Not only could they not go to Cangling City to settle down, but they even had to bypass Cangling City far away, but when they were considering deviating from the valley passage along the Cangling River, where was there a convenient passage for them to move westward quickly, a sharp warning signal came from far and near, Xing Haobo's expression changed, and his divine sense extended out, but more than a thousand war birds were flying towards them at full speed.

At this time, the only person who could gather such an elite fighting force on the Cangling River was Chen Hai, the Marquis of Beiling, who personally led the Longxiang army that marched eastward.

Xing Haobo's face was depressed, Long Xiangjun really wanted to come over and forcibly absorb them, even him, Senior Brother Qian Yue, and more than a dozen elders of the Ming Realm might not be able to escape at such a close distance, because the person who had already locked him with his divine sense at this time was far above him in cultivation, and he should be a powerhouse in the Dao Fetal Realm.

"Is it the Sect Master Xing of the Purple Cloud Valley ahead?" The constant temperature rate of more than a thousand imperial bird elites slowly approached, standing on the huge wing back of a flame pupil spirit crane, and asked in a loud voice.

More than a thousand elite birds formed a formation in mid-air, although they did not immediately open the encirclement, but if these people from Ziyun Valley in front of them dared to have the idea of escaping, they would definitely not mind making a big move.

After the Great Demon Lord Wu Zhen was defeated and fled, he didn't even dare to defend Qinyang City, but went all the way to the north, fled to Longyang Mountain, which was more than 10,000 miles away, and gathered the three nearly 300,000 demon soldiers who had marched to the north and south foothills of Longyang Mountain at that time, occupied a strong fortress built by a scattered sect in the depths of Longyang Mountain, and wantonly plundered the mortals of the human race, preparing to rely on the steep terrain of Longyang Mountain to fight against the Longxiang army.

At this time, although Xi Tongguang temporarily stabilized the situation on the side of Dajin Mountain after advancing northward, the hinterland of Beiting was eroded, and everyone was fleeing westward in a hurry, and it was impossible to organize large-scale troops and horses to march eastward, and the Longxiang army only had 100,000 elites, unable to gnaw down Longyang Mountain, and at the same time, a large number of demon soldiers gathered in the direction of Jiuyuansai, so they had to go south to meet Chen Hai in Cangling City under the leadership of Mo Zhai, Yao Wenjin and others.

At this time, Ji Jiangye had already integrated the forces of the Heavenly Crane Sect, sent 5,000 imperial bird disciples again, and expanded the scale of the Longxiang Army's war poultry battalion to more than 25,000 people, but in addition, there was no way to send more elite soldiers and horses.

On the one hand, the three sects had to adjust a large number of manpower to the area east of Zibai Mountain to assist the people to move westward, and they also had to send a group of soldiers and horses to join Xi Tongguang to help Xi Tongguang stabilize the situation at the eastern foot of Dajin Mountain for a longer time, and more importantly, the 80,000-li supply line from Zibai Mountain to Cangling City was too long.

The eastern part of Beiting is densely populated, and there are many villages and cities like stars, and the grain storage is huge, but in addition to the grain storage, if you want to carry out large-scale military operations or confrontations, the other materials that must be consumed are amazing and huge.

Although the Northwest Domain has a large number of Wind and Flame Airships at this time, as long as the Demon Clan reacts, once a large number of Winged Demon Elites enter the hinterland of the Northern Court, in the case that the internal defense system of the Northern Court has been paralyzed, the transport team formed by the Wind Flame Airship will not be able to resist the surprise attack of the large number of Winged Demon Elites.

However, the scale of the war bird battalion in Chen Hai's hands is still too small, and it is impossible to escort the passage of the airship team on such a long supply line.

Therefore, at this time, Chen Hai began to organize the people to move westward, and on the other hand, he intercepted the elite forces of the sect lords east of Cangling City as much as possible for incorporation, so as to ensure that he could have as many soldiers and horses as possible on the eastern front......

After Huan Wen intercepted Xing Haobo and other people who retreated west from Ziyun Valley, he went straight to the point and directly put forward a request for reorganization:

In addition to all the disciples above the Spirit Clearing Realm who need to be incorporated into the Long Xiang Army, they also have to hand over all the resources such as pills, Dao talismans, and rare gold and iron that can be used for refining weapons - these resources are too scarce in Cangling City to be brought to Zibai Mountain, and then transported from Zibai Mountain with great hardship and possibly a large number of casualties.

In addition, if the disciples of the Tongxuan Realm in Ziyun Valley are willing to stay and participate in the war, they will be very welcome here, but if they want to retreat to Zibai Mountain and then accept the reorganization, they will not be stopped here, after all, Chen Hai cannot maintain too large a large number of troops on the Eastern Front, and it is even extremely difficult to ensure the supply of the 500,000 soldiers and horses under their command in Qin Hushan and Wu Zhidong in the future, why did he intercept a large number of Spirit Restoration Realm foundations at this time?