Chapter 42: The Great Defeat (10)
As Iinuma stood on top of the city's tallest building, a small five-story building, overlooking the city, he still couldn't believe he had succeeded.
In such a large city, there are only three humans - Ishinuma doesn't know that one of them has escaped in advance - and they are so weak that they don't even have the ability to fight back, it's like there is no defense!
It's hard to imagine that this is an important logistics base.
When faced with the mountains of munitions and ammunition, Ishinuma didn't know what it was, but the fluctuations emitted by the spells attached to the ammunition reminded Ishinuma.
He immediately arrested a few evil spirits for interrogation.
These demons surrendered as soon as the human mages were wiped out.
In the face of these Hell Natives, they don't have any ability to fight back at all, especially the construction equipment they are attached to has no protective measures, and any Hell Natives only need a simple soul fluctuation impact to destroy them.
In fact, if the demons could follow the orders of the company's employees and enter the puppet in time, they could easily destroy these natives of hell who did not know whether they were alive or dead.
And now, in the hands of these indigenous soldiers, the situation of the evil spirits has not only not improved, but even worsened, at least humans do not eat evil ghosts, and for the indigenous soldiers, evil spirits are also good food! Dozens of demons were eaten at the first moment of surrender, and if Ishinuma hadn't stopped them in time, the excited soldiers would have used the demons to hold a grand celebratory banquet.
See, these are these evil spirits, with two ends of the head and two ends, short-sighted.
It is not unreasonable for any mage involved in the ghost hunting profession to be repeatedly warned by the master that the evil ghost is treacherous and unbelievable when he is studying.
Fortunately, Ishinuma was not carried away by the victory and stopped the impulsive actions of the soldiers in time. Of course, in order to make up for it, Ishinuma allowed all the soldiers to loot as much as they could in the city, and they could take whatever they liked.
Now the soldiers were cheering in the streets, scurrying in high spirits from house to house, plundering any visible wealth.
The things that the mages of the westward troops had worked so hard to snatch from various indigenous settlements were all snatched back by the natives.
Of course, none of this is important.
Especially for Ishinuma.
From the demon's mouth, Ishinuma easily obtained all the information he wanted, including the use of those magic weapons and puppets, and then the various arrangements of the humans in front of him, as well as the scale of their development.
These demons who can be assigned to do construction tasks will only be sent out after working in the Pioneer City for a period of time and are relatively good, so they have a certain understanding of the company's development in hell.
When Iinuma heard that hundreds of humans had poured into Hell and that the colonization had swept across the Western Wilderness, the officer who had felt so bold was almost terrified. He immediately realized how lucky his victory was. Then he was caught in a dilemma.
Is it defending, or retreating.
If they retreat, all the supplies in this logistics base will have to be destroyed, and they must no longer be left for the enemy.
However, those puppets were so solid that Ishinuma and a small group of soldiers tried it, and it took a long time to try, but they couldn't even leave a white mark.
If it can't be destroyed, then this raid operation will have no meaning for Iinuma, but will become a pure *. Ishinuma's ambition was not to grab a ticket and go home, otherwise he wouldn't have to take such a risk.
However, if the defense left behind, once the human side reacts, then he will face an army of puppets like a flood of angry waves. Even a large army was on the verge of collapse in front of an army of this size, and Ishinuma didn't think that he could create a miracle with a thousand defeated soldiers.
In fact, the best option is to retreat.
Ishinuma has already created a miracle, with a team of routs to capture the enemy's logistics base, destroying most of the supplies, I believe that as long as he returns to the rear with the team, he can definitely be rewarded and promoted, which is really eye-catching in the context of the great rout on the western border, so eye-catching that it is simply intolerable not to give a reward - although hell has no place for even heaven, there is really no heavenly reason.
But Ishinuma was not satisfied, he wanted to win more.
It's the same as a gambler, who wants to win more when he wins, and wants to toss a few more when he wins more.
Ishinuma has been aggrieved for so many years, and finally got a chance, and he didn't want to accept it if he didn't want to see it.
With the immediate credit, although it is excellent, it is limited in terms of actual results, and it will definitely not be exchanged for too many rewards. Maybe he can be promoted to two or three levels, but with his current position, even if he is promoted to another three levels, he is still a low-level officer, even if he doesn't take this risk, with their long life of stone spirits, he has survived for 1,800 years, and eight or nine times out of ten he can survive to that position by seniority, so why take such a risk.
Can't retreat, can't hold!
Then don't retreat, and don't keep it!
As a stone spirit, in terms of racial temperament, he should belong to the type that is calm and old and is not afraid of 10,000 just in case, but the red-eyed Ishinuma has become an alternative at this time, and he has to take another big risk!
Iinuma gathered the officers of the team - he actually wanted to gather all the soldiers, but the soldiers were already red-eyed, and it would be too wasteful to gather them for a while - and announced a decision to summon the demons into the army!
This would have been unthinkable before.
How can a demon be a slave who is the lowest life, worthy only of food, to join the army?
Even Ishinuma, who had almost established absolute authority in the team, caused a small uproar after announcing the decision.
The officers all felt that this was not necessary at all, and after the robbery, they would dispose of all these evil ghosts, and they would have obtained the wealth and information, so they would just retreat quickly, what are they doing with this?
On top of that, conscripting demons into the army was a clear violation of dynastic law.
The laws of the dynasty clearly stipulated that evil spirits, ethereal spirits, and night gluttons were forbidden to join the army, and because these three creatures were short-sighted and difficult to control, they could not become qualified soldiers at all.
Ishinuma did this, in the eyes of these lower-ranking officers, it was simply committing suicide. Now that he has made such a great contribution, but suddenly made such a move, isn't he carried away by victory?