At the beginning of the light snow, the entire Yantai Pass is covered with shallow snow for thousands of miles, and occasionally some places expose black mountain rocks, like a delicate ink painting, sober and refined.

However, the black pillars of smoke rising from the refining furnace behind Yantai Pass were quite ruining the picture scroll in front of Chen Hai in Chen Hai's eyes, but Sha Tianhe, Xie Jueyuan, and Huang Qiwei felt that these black smoke columns were not thick enough, black enough, choking enough, and dense enough.

The time has come to the early winter of the thirty-seventh year of Jianxing, and the new Tianying City under the Lingque Peak has finally been preliminarily completed.

Under the Lingque Peak, it was also an ancient battlefield where the two races of man and demon fought many bloody battles, and the fierce battle like a landslide and ground crack destroyed the terrain of two or three hundred miles around the Lingque Peak, coupled with the erosion of the river for a long time, in the deep mountains at the southwest foot of the Demon Ridge, a mountain dam plain that extends more than 220 miles from east to west and is more than 150 miles long from north to south is formed, and there are rivers such as Minchuan River passing through.

The new Tianying City was built on the north side of Lingque Peak, in the middle of this mountain dam plain.

Tianying City does not have a towering, continuous city wall of more than 100 miles, from the north slope of Lingque Peak, respectively, the Tiangong Xue Palace, the city guard palace yamen, the residential area where three or four hundred thousand people live and live, and the workshop area composed of hundreds of large and small workshops, and the defense of Tianying City is more dependent on a strong fortress built on the outer gorge or dangerous peak of the mountain dam plain, to prevent the infiltration and attack of a small group of demons.

The loss of people and horses in Beiling Town is much lower than that of Zhuzhen, but the loss of heavenly machine weapons is much higher than that of other towns, and Tianying City, which has an annual output of more than 2,000 light and heavy heavenly machine chariots, six or seven thousand heavy crossbows, and more than 60 wind and flame airships, can be said to be the real lifeblood of Beiling Town.

In the past, Tianying City was built at the northern foot of Dongdu Mountain, more than 10,000 miles away from the main station of Beiling Town, in order to ensure that the lifeline was not lost, Chen Hai had to divide a large number of elites to be placed in Dongdu Mountain to ensure that Tianying City was foolproof, which also seriously affected the military potential of Beiling Town.

Just like at the beginning, Chen Hai didn't want to take such a big risk to wander away from the edge of the black-haired desert in person, but if he wanted to take into account Yunmen Sai and Dongdu Mountain, he had to carry out mobile combat with the strongest combat power.

At present, the new Tianying City has been established under the Lingque Peak, and more than eighty percent of the craftsmen and craftsmen have moved over, which means that he can gather the main soldiers and horses of Beiling Town to the west foot of the Demon Deer Ridge, and his tactics will become more flexible and mobile.

During the same period, Chen Hai also mainly relied on the Lingquefeng Dam Plain and the surrounding small and medium-sized river valley basins, mainly with the families of military attachés borrowed from Fusang Hai and the families of the generals of Beiling Town after they remarried, with agricultural tools such as oxen, camels, and ploughs, to reclaim more than 20 million grain fields, and it is estimated that more than 2 billion catties of grain can be collected every year, which can almost basically meet the grain consumption of the soldiers in Beiling Town.

However, the soldiers of Beiling Town are mainly elite generals in the Xuan Realm, in addition to grain consumption, the consumption of meat is also very large, the annual consumption of nearly one billion catties of meat, at present, it is not Tianying City can raise meat and poultry, meat beasts can provide, Chen Hai will also use the large and small river valleys, mountain dams, plains and large and small basins in the depths of the Demon Deer Ridge to hoard fields or graze and raise livestock, to ensure that the Mozhang Ridge can achieve self-sufficiency to a certain extent.

In addition, Tianying City has surveyed two large Xuanyang iron veins on the edge of the Lingque Peak Mountain Dam Plain, which can smelt four million catties of Xuanyang refined iron and one billion catties of ordinary copper and iron every year - because in the mine, in addition to the mining vehicles, it also began to use rail baggage trucks, and the two large mines and smelters, Tianying City only needs to invest thousands of miners.

In comparison, the Northwest Region had to mine and smelt Xuanyang refined iron of this scale and ordinary copper and iron of a considerable scale, and the manpower invested was thirty or forty times more than that of Tianying City.

It's just that in the eyes of the big clan lords, the mortal people are as small as ants, and they don't feel that there is any need to increase the need to requisition thirty or forty times more ant people, and the ordinary people to mine ore and smelt copper and iron.

The Gengyang Golden Thunder Array was too dazzling to come out at this time, but Chen Hai still deployed the Gengyang Golden Thunder Array and the Qianyuan Xuanji Array borrowed by the Nine Counties in the underground palace deep in the belly of Lingque Peak.

The Qianyuan Xuan Extreme Array is actually the same kind of large array as the Qianyuan Xuan Extreme Array that the Ying clan used to defend Yanjing back then, but there is one more Dao-level Qianyuan Town Demon Pillar than the back formation, which makes this Qianyuan Xuan Extreme Array in the true sense of the word several times stronger in defense, which is enough to prevent the small-scale Wing Demon Elite from raiding and killing within the range of the Lingque Peak Mountain Dam Plain.

And on the periphery of the Lingque Peak Dam Plain, the eight fortresses are all deployed with a ban-level defense array and elite soldiers and horses ranging from three to five thousand, and the biggest effect is that there are Demon Lord-level powerhouses who raid in, and they can drag the strong enemy for a period of time with the Qianyuan Xuan Extreme Array, so that the Xuantian Thunder Ship can rush over from the direction of Yantai Pass in time to rescue.

Of course, if it really comes to the most critical moment, the left ear will still activate the Gengyang Golden Thunder Array.

In the main city of Yantai Pass, Chen Hai also expanded more than a dozen workshops dedicated to military and town weapons on the basis of the original craftsmen and craftsmen, and also grazed livestock and raised more than 100,000 heads of livestock on the mountain dam plain that extended more than 100 miles southwest of Yantai Pass.

The main city of Yantai Pass is too close to the battlefield in front of it, and the cloud gate is so broken that the main city of Yantai Pass is protected by the Great Array of Ten Thousand Immortals and Demons, and it has little impact, but outside the city, it is like a five or six magnitude earthquake at every turn, which is not conducive to farming, nor is it conducive to building houses to settle mortals, even if it is a herding livestock, it is only a kind of fire pattern brute cattle that can raise the most sluggish nervous response and is not very easy to scream, and can slightly make up for the lack of meat.

In any case, although the battles in Yunmensai, Tengxiling and other places are still tragic, after a small year of operation, the hoarding of military species at the western foot of Mozhang Ridge can be regarded as a small success.

Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er personally took action, driving away a group of winged demons who tried to sneak across the Demon Deer Ridge on the eastern battlefield, and they were standing in the sky, looking at the various places in Yantai Pass that were full of vitality even in the cold winter, they were also quite satisfied, if they could survive the demon tribulation this time, they would control the core base of Tianluo Valley here.

At the same time, the eastern flank of Mozhang Ridge had just ended a tragic battle.

Hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Rakshasa Demon Clan, under the cover of nearly 10,000 Winged Demons and an even larger number of elite Demon Cavalry, slowly retreated towards the fortress two or three hundred miles away.

The eastern flank defense line is centered on one city and four fortresses, and the gates of the fortresses are opened everywhere, and one after another heavenly chariots rumble out, putting on a tight posture, forcing the demons to have no spare strength to clean up the battlefield, so they retreated north in a panic.

Ji Jiangye stood at the head of the city of Dong'an Pass, looking at the defeated figure of the Rakshasa Demon Clan, his face was quite satisfied.

There is no need to supervise the battle and count the results, the strong divine senses of Ji Jiangye, Yuan Zhou and others have long seen every move that has happened on the battlefield in the past few days.

Before the complete arrival of winter, the demons played this war on the eastern defense line, which can be said to be the largest battle this year, lasted for a total of eleven days, and the demons used two million demon soldiers to attack the large and small fortresses on the eastern defense line in turn.

At this time, the demons gave up all the demon villages in front of them and withdrew to the Changping fortress further north, presumably to terminate the war of attrition this time ahead of schedule.

In this battle, the soldiers and horses of the Ji clan and the Yuan clan in the eastern defense line killed more than 300,000 elite demon soldiers, and although they lost more than 200,000 men and horses, with the popularization of heavenly machine weapons and the general promotion of new tactics, those mortals who are strong and strong even if they do not have the cultivation of the Xuan Realm can also enter the battlefield to assist in the battle. The Yuan clan's descendants in the eastern flank defense line, the loss of elite generals was reduced to a level not seen in the front.

In the eyes of the Demon Race, the battle losses of the Terrans in the Demon Deer Ridge have only been reduced by one or two percent compared with before, and in the past year, the battlefield at the northern foot of the Demon Deer Ridge has devoured the lives of nearly three million generals of the Terran Race like a meat grinder, but the battle losses of the elite generals in the middle and late stages of the Tongxuan Realm have been reduced by three percent, the battle losses of the grassroots military attachés in the Spirit Clearing Realm have been reduced by fifty percent, and the losses of the elite generals above the Ming Realm have been greatly reduced by more than sixty percent.

After the transformation of the three gallop roads from the Pingma Mountain defense line to the Demon Deer Ridge was completed, the traditional animal power was replaced by wheeled baggage vehicles, and at this time, the demons sent a small group of elite demon soldiers to infiltrate the south of the Demon Deer Ridge, and if they wanted to attack the supply line of the human race, it was already worth the loss......

Although the material consumption of the Demon Deer Ridge is like a bottomless pit, as long as the war on the eastern and southern fronts is worry-free, Ji Jiangye and Yuan Zhou are already confident that they can defend the Demon Deer Ridge to the end.

Hundreds of miles away, the Demon Lord of Tuwu, who turned into a bearded giant, stood on top of a blood-hoofed giant beast more than ten meters high, his gaze spanned hundreds of miles, staring at Ji Jiangye's confident face, and fierce blood flowed from the demon pupils.

The night was getting deeper, and three hundred miles northeast of Dong'an Pass, a magic fortress with a radius of more than ten miles was entrenched there like a devouring beast.

There are three or four hundred thousand Rakshasa demon soldiers gathered in the demon village, in addition to the necessary duty, most of the Rakshasa demon soldiers have fallen into a deep sleep after chewing and swallowing a bloody meal, after all, after several days of fierce battles, even the energetic Rakshasa demon clan can not bear such consumption, a big sleep will help them better digest, absorb the flesh and blood essence in the blood food.

In the middle of the demon village, there is a stone temple built by the human race.

In the stone hall, Taiguan and the demon lords such as Tu Wu, Pandu, Dantu, and Yin Li sat on the tall king's chair made of the skull of the demon Jiao, and their faces sank like water.

At the beginning of the meat grinder-like war of attrition in the Demon Deer Ridge, they were able to stay in Beiling City and Yanguicheng to rest, but this time in order to strengthen the offensive on the eastern flank of the human race, the Evil Realm Hall also had fifty elite demon soldiers who were transferred to participate in the war, but they never thought that more than ten days had passed, and they were killed nearly 100,000 elite demon soldiers.

The shrill voice of the demon slayer like the friction of iron weapons sounded in the main hall: "The four halls have been attacking the Demon Deer Ridge for five years, even if the four halls can recruit a large number of demon soldiers and demon generals from the north, but this has accumulated 12 million elites, and before the battle was killed in the Demon Deer Ridge, the human race relies on the Heaven and Earth Great Array, but their bodies are naturally weak, and even if the casualties are slightly smaller than ours, the accumulation is definitely more than 10 million." It stands to reason that the three sects in the Northwest Regions should be getting more and more tired, and in another two or three years, they may be completely unable to support themselves and collapse—it's just, you guys, are there any signs that the Terrans in the Northwest Regions can't support themselves?"