Chapter 163: A Delaying Tactic
In the past thousand years, the number of demons attacking the fortress in southern Hebei has never exceeded 100,000, and even the number of sieges once every hundred years is only 200,000.
In this way, the southern Hebei fortress still paid an extremely heavy price before it barely held on.
If it weren't for the strong support from the rear, the support money and food given would not be enough, I am afraid that the southern Hebei fortress and even the tens of thousands of people in the rear cities would have been captured by the demons and become the world of the demons.
Now that millions of demons are attacking the city, how can the southern Hebei fortress resist it?
On the city gate, Nie Hu looked at this scene, his face was gloomy as water, even if the soldiers on the front line of the millions of demons attacked the city to help share most of the pressure, it would be difficult for the southern Hebei fortress to hold, let alone drive back the demons who were attacking the city this time, it was almost impossible.
The southern Hebei fortress is dead!
"Someone! Send the battle report here back as soon as possible! Be sure to let the emperors of the two countries and the Chixiao Sect know! We will resist for a maximum of 3 months, and if there are no reinforcements, the southern Hebei fortress will be lost!"
Nie Hu said to a messenger behind him.
When the messenger saw such a scene, his legs trembled with fright, and he almost wanted to fall, but when he heard this, he hurriedly rushed down the city wall, and quickly summoned two messengers, and the three soldiers divided into three ways and left quickly.
"Come on, evacuate all the old, weak, women and children in the city!"
Seeing the messenger leaving, Nie Hu commanded his subordinates.
A general took out and was ordered to leave.
"Father, this time the demon clan is menacing, I'm afraid there will be more than one bad luck!" Nie Yu came to Nie Hu's side and said with a serious expression.
"Do you have any solution?" Nie Hu asked rhetorically, in the current situation, if there is no support, it is only a matter of time before the city is destroyed and people die.
Nie Yu watched the large number of mercenaries behind him flee in a panic, and his open mouth finally closed.
Breaking through all the laws, any trick is useless in the face of the absolute difference in strength, and the only way to do this is to hope that those messengers will quickly report back the information and hold on until the reinforcements arrive.
"Sending half of the people to the front to support will definitely slow down the pace of the demon attack. The others are ready to fight at any time in the city!"
Nie Hu didn't waste time, and immediately ordered to go down, how long could it be delayed.
Several people received orders and went to carry out the order.
Nie Yu also took the order to leave and went to the place where the mercenaries gathered.
"Assemble!"
As one of the guards beside Nie Yu spoke, the mercenaries who had not left quickly gathered together, looking at Nie Yu and not knowing what he was doing.
"The demons have already come 10 miles outside the city, I need you to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and all commissions will be doubled!" Nie Yu said to the mercenaries below.
Most of these people didn't know the number of demons outside, and when they heard that Nie Yu had doubled their commission, they were all very excited, and they couldn't wait to rush out now and kill them.
Some are confident in their own strength and confident that they will walk away, while others are fascinated by money.
"The city gate has been opened, let's go!" Nie Yu looked at the open city gate and said loudly.
When the mercenaries heard this, they all rushed to the city gate and rushed to the battlefield ahead, where in their eyes it was no longer a place of threat to death, but a large unowned magic stone beckoning to them.
Nie Yu looked at the front line, there seemed to be monstrous anger in his eyes, but looking at the mercenaries who rushed to the front line like wild horses, the anger in his eyes subsided, and he sighed in his heart, hoping to hold on for a while.
Zhou Su mixed the crowd out of the city gate, but did not immediately rush to the battlefield ahead, but looked back at the strong and majestic city wall of the southern Hebei fortress, if it could not resist the attack of the demons this time, this huge city would become history.
Zhou Su's cheap parents died in the hands of the demons, and Zhou Su also had hatred for the demons, but Zhou Su knew that everything without strength was delusional, so until the strength was enough, Zhou Su would not do useless work with eggs and stones.
Following the crowd, Zhou Su rushed to the front-line battlefield 10 miles away, and joined the battle one after another, with the southern Hebei fortress sending people to join the battle, although it still couldn't repel the demons, but the speed of the battle line moving back slowed down, not as fast as before.
According to the current situation, it will be able to hold out for at least 7 days before returning to the city to defend, 3 days later than before, and the preparation in the city can be more sufficient.
When he arrived at the battlefield, Zhou Su really felt the cruelty of fighting with the demons, and it was not as good as before.
At the forefront of the Terrans were burly and strong defensive monks with shields, separated from each other by a distance half a man's width, forming an impregnable wall of human flesh with flesh and blood.
Behind them was a group of monks with swords, guns and other weapons, rushing through the gap to attack the demons.
After that, it is a team of monks who can attack from a distance, and they are also the main output, one after another arrows, fireballs, and various long-range skills fall madly in front of them like rain, and a large number of demon strikers fall, and more demons rush up one after another.
Finally, there are the support monks, who provide various bonuses and buffs to the warriors in front of them to relieve their stress.
Everything on the side of the human race has undergone countless training, and the cooperation is uniform, although it is not defeated by the demons, but it also has a certain amount of parrying power, so that it will not be beaten without the power to fight back.
On the other hand, the demons, although they are also humanoids, their attacks are disorderly, and there is no doubt in the demonic beasts, when they see the human race in front of them, they are meaningless, or they smash with weapons, or bite and tear their hands.
The two sides duel, the demons are numerous, the attacks are continuous, the demons in front have just died, and the corpse has not fallen, and the demons in the rear have already pounced to fill the vacancy.
When the mercenaries arrived at the front line, they were also shocked when they saw such a scene, and they didn't dare to step forward alone to kill the demons, so they appeared from the side to help the soldiers in front attract a small number of demons to a little farther away to kill.
The pressure on the soldiers was reduced a little, but it was still difficult to block, and they slowly retreated under the attack of the demons.
Zhou Su insisted, knowing that he would not be of much help when he stepped forward, so he used the Heavenly Light and Shadow to conceal his body, cast a collection technique on the dead demons, and mended the knife against some remnant blood demons on the edge to kill them.
Zhou Su's appearance is like water dripping into the sea, and it can't set off any waves.
On the city wall, Nie Hu saw that a large number of people in the rear rushed to the front to help in the battle, and the speed of the retreat of the front line slowed down a little, but he was still slowly retreating, knowing that this delaying strategy worked, but it only slowed down the pace of the demon attack, and the help was not very great.
"Speed up the preparation of supplies, and be sure to prepare them before they retreat!
Seeing that the situation was still not good, Nie Hu commanded the guards who followed beside him.
One order after another was issued, and all departments of the southern Hebei fortress quickly operated...