Book 5, Paradise Lost, Chapter 244
Thunder and lightning swept through the eerie tower, and the light that suddenly rose and disappeared quickly made the castle even more strange. The dull sound of iron hammering, heavy and slow breathing in the walled city under the castle, the occasional vicious curse in the demonic language and the sound of whips tearing flesh and skin, and the scorching heat of the towering furnace spewed out a demonic castle, a world completely ruled by demons.
Outside the castle, a dark red lava river flowed through the city like a running aunt, and a black bridge three carriages wide over the lava river was the only access to the castle.
Five thousand warriors were hidden in a valley not too far from the castle, and the Raptor Druid, one of the best scouts, was sent back to the castle through an eagle named Dark Eye.
"Huh!" With a wingspan of about two meters, the warhawk circled across the demon's castle, and the demonic warrior on the castle with a tall axe in his hand, shrouded in armor and only two red eyes, suddenly swept over the warhawk, and then slowly withdrew his gaze.
"There is a team of demon warriors guarding the bridge, and there are also several demon warriors on the city wall behind the bridge, and these demon warriors will put down the iron gate of the city gate once they find danger, and then we will pay a big price if we want to pass through the iron gate!" In a camp in the middle of the valley, the army's highest-ranking officials were discussing the storming of the castle. Today is the fifth day that Richard's army has entered the demon territory, and three days ago, the army has eliminated four demon gathering places, and then the army quietly bypassed the area where the demon warriors had hoarded heavy troops, and came directly to the castle of the lord-level demon of this territory lord, and it seems that the decapitation of the Americans still affects many people even now. Li Xian did not say the slightest opinion about this plan, which could be called a surprise attack or a military adventure, and since the outcome was already predestined, it seemed that there was little sense in how the process was carried out.
"Demon warriors are not those waste soldiers, it is impossible for a soldier of our size to break into the castle without being detected by them, we need to be prepared for a large number of casualties!" Hord said after Richard spoke up that Hord couldn't remember the first time he had been involved in a siege, but each such action had cost him many of his comrades.
"Although we have plenty of troops and an overwhelming advantage, we don't necessarily need to focus only on the attack. Those places that can't be detected by the war eagles don't count, in my opinion, there are only about three hundred demon warriors in this castle, and this number of soldiers can't perfectly guard a castle, I do have an idea! The Dark Knight Addams followed.
"What do you think, say it and see if it's feasible!" Richard nodded, his gaze swept over the ubiquitous fog outside the valley, and frowned slightly.
"There are two teams of demon warriors at the front of the Demon Castle, about twenty-four people, and there is also about a team of soldiers on the wall of the city gate behind the bridge, plus the guards in the rest of the city wall, the outer city wall has gathered close to a hundred demon warriors. According to the normal situation, the demon's castle guards should be more strict, then the number of demon warriors in the castle should not be lower than this number, and counting the soldiers who guard the slave work in the city outside the castle, two or three hundred soldiers should be almost distributed. So although the eagle can't detect the guards behind the castle, I think the guards will be very weak, so I can lead a team of warriors to enter the city from the back of the castle, we can create chaos and attract the attention of the guards in the castle, and at this time, the front of the castle can also send elite warriors to occupy the city gate and cooperate with the army to enter the city in one fell swoop! Adams broke off a stick and randomly drew a sketch of a small city on the wet ground, in which he circled the spot he wanted to break into. Adams' plan made several people's eyes light up.
"Yes, this plan works, as long as we occupy the city gates so that they cannot be closed, we can avoid a lot of casualties!" Hodder thought for a moment and couldn't help but say.
"What do you think, Hans?" Richard asked, looking at the beast god lord Hans.
"I also think this plan is feasible, the lord can give me the task of occupying the city gate, I will take a team of dark elves to do it, I will definitely not disappoint the lord!" Hans nodded in agreement with the plan.
"Okay, then it's decided, Adams leads people to enter from the back of the castle, and after entering, attract the attention of the demon warriors in the city, once there is chaos in the castle, Hans and Hodder immediately touch it with the dark elves, and the demon warriors on the bridge may not all be killed, as long as you can rush into the city and control the iron gate of the city gate to buy some time for the large army. There is no problem, there is no problem, go out and prepare now, and go right away! ”
Adams quickly found his own deployment, he didn't know about the others, at this time he used people to break into the demon fortress he was still the most trusted of his subordinates, on the other side Hans and Hodder also found the dark elves, from which they picked out a few people who were best at stealth assassination, in order to ensure the success of the operation, Hod also found several powerful warriors, including two hill dwarves and minotaur warriors.
"Ready to go!" The operatives were quickly confirmed, and Richard did not want to delay for a moment, and immediately gave the order.
"Wait, my lord, there's a demon's eye flying in the sky!" Just before the action, a wrinkled face and a blackened robe suddenly spoke.
The demon's eyes turned out to be gargoyles, and the war eagles didn't find a few black dots flying high in the higher sky, they were a few gargoyles, gargoyles can fly and have the best eyesight among demons, as long as they enter their field of vision, even a rabbit running on the ground will be found by them, Richard's army is stopped in the valley, if you go a little further out of the valley, I'm afraid it has been discovered by these gargoyles now.
"It's a gargoyle, it's a bit of a trouble now, it seems to us that we can only attack!" The gargoyle appeared here and all the plans were in vain.
"No, my lord, we can keep the army out of the gargoyle's sight!" The old wizard nodded slightly to the people around him, and several wizards began to read out some words that others did not understand, and then a cloud of fog fell, and the 'fog of war' could make the investigation come to naught outside a certain range.
(To be continued)