Just when Cheng Xiuyi and the others were about to break through bravely, the life-and-death battle between Xia Yuan and the beast demon also began.

From the time they had revered their air power to trap and kill the beast demon clan to now, the sky had completely brightened.

Today's weather is very good, and it's the season when the grass grows and the eagle flies and hikes.

At this time in the past, it was a good time for various nobles, big businessmen or some scholars to lead their families to go out.

And because Shangjing has three rivers around Shangjing, although Shangjing is in the north of the empire, it has the grace and beauty of the southern water towns in the south.

Mei Xiaoyun, the great poet of Xia Yuan, once wrote a poem "Spring in Beijing", which describes the scenery of Shangjing at this time: flowers and grasses are long and finches are around, and new peach and willow branches are silky. Sanshui went around the city around Beijing, and whose plum makeup covered the fan smile. Wang Sun Gongzi called friends to come, and a few cups of spring wine made friends.

This is the scene of spring in Shangjing City in the past, but now Shangjing City is full of wolf smoke, and Xia Yuan and the beast demon alliance are going to start a life-and-death duel under this ancient city that has been built for nearly 10,000 years.

Originally, there was a small forest outside the capital city, and in previous years, it was a place for the dignitaries and dignitaries of the capital to enjoy the coolness.

However, since Namur Dozhen led the coalition army to enter outside the capital of Shangjing, in order to prevent a sneak attack from Xia Yuan's side, Namur Dozhen ordered the human servant army to cut down this grove entirely.

What was once lush and green was now bare, as ugly as a beautiful girl's face with ringworm.

Now that the two armies are facing each other, the wind has rolled up countless banners, and the land that was originally covered with vegetation has revealed its earthy yellow color due to the trampling of men and riding beasts.

The floating soil on the ground was blown into the air by the wind, the two phalanxes were far away from each other, the sound of war drums sounded around the battlefield, and the shouts of men and beasts came and went.

Cheng Xiuyi was still leading two thousand beast knights, intending to break out of the Five Elements Great Array set up by the wolf demon cavalry, and Cheng Zuting also led five other strong men to trap more than ten strong men on the beast demon side, but on the main battlefield of Xia Yuan and the beast demon alliance, it was a slaughter.

Both sides set up phalanxes, preparing for a bloody battle, and the struggle between intelligent beings appeared calm before it began, but Xia Yuan's side took the lead in attacking.

Because Gao Chong couldn't afford to wait, in the original plan for him and Cheng Xiuyi, Cheng Xiuyi led the army to rush into the rear of the beast and demon coalition army after persuading the human servant army to defeat the enemy's auxiliary troops.

Then they chased these auxiliary units and continued to break the enemy's own position, but what they didn't expect was that the enemy's commander had the determination to break the wrist of a strong man, completely abandoning all his auxiliary troops, and only using the main force to fight a decisive battle with him.

Moreover, he also sent his sacrificial and wolf cavalry to surround Cheng Xiuyi and them, since the strategic purpose has not been achieved, then they can only have a hard-to-face duel with the enemy.

Moreover, Gao Chong took the initiative to attack in order to rescue Cheng Xiuyi and them, if Cheng Xiuyi's team was completely annihilated by the enemy, then the blow to the morale of the entire Xia Yuan side would be huge.

Moreover, Cheng Xiuyi is the eldest princess of the empire, and her status is respected on the Xia Yuan side, especially the eldest princess of the prison country is deeply favored by the emperor.

When Cheng Mingci learned the news that Cheng Xiuyi was trapped, he immediately ordered Gao Chong to attack, and one more thing is that this decisive battle is a test of Cheng Xiuyi's reform measures.

Because in the previous wars of the Xia Yuan, in order to prevent the dictatorship of the military generals from causing trouble to the world, the military commanders in the military tradition of the Xia Yuan were all served by civilian officials, and there were also internal servants around the emperor as the supervisors, but the specific charge was served by the military generals.

This is a phenomenon, the credit for winning the battle belongs to the commander and the supervising army, which shows that the commander is strategizing and winning the decisive victory thousands of miles away, indicating that the emperor wisely sent a good supervising army.

As for those generals who are charging into battle, they are all martial artists, and they are not martial arts or even martial saints, who cares about their feelings.

But if you lose the battle, it is because you soldiers have not done your best, then all the responsibility will naturally fall on you generals.

In this reform, Cheng Xiuyi resolutely demanded the abolition of the civilian command system and the internal service supervision and military system, because Cheng Xiuyi believes that it is undeniable that some civilian officials are indeed familiar with military books and war strategies, and they do have very superb wisdom.

No, Xiuyi thought that the main energy of civil officials should be on government affairs, and many civil officials thought that after reading the military book for two days, they regarded themselves as the founding fathers and were known as the most remarkable wise men in the entire Xia and Yuan history.

However, most civilian officials will only talk about the army on paper, and then there is the system of internal servants and military supervisors.

These chamberlains are all royal minions, and their hearts are somewhat distorted due to physiological reasons.

And they are the closest people to the emperor, and their words can be heard by the emperor for the first time, so the highest status in the army is not those civilian commanders, but those who are in charge of the army.

And these overseers are not successful enough to defeat more than defeated, and often a battle is a sure battle, because of their existence, the war is often due to a very imbecile mistake, which leads to the final defeat.

If it weren't for the fact that those saint-level powerhouses were in charge in the past, and those forces around them didn't dare to easily brush Xia Yuan's tiger whiskers, then it might have been many years ago that the Beast Demon Empire might have attacked Shangjing.

Moreover, these two systems greatly hit the enthusiasm of the generals, and in the long run, Xia Yuan General could not find a general who was willing to lead the troops, nor could he find a soldier who was willing to charge for the empire.

Therefore, in this reform, Cheng Xiuyi resolutely demanded the abolition of the civilian commander system and the internal service and military system.

This war is now the first large-scale foreign war after this reform, and it is also the first time that Gao Chong, as the first imperial general, has independently served as the commander of a large army, especially the commander of such a decisive war.

Although it is not suitable for Xia Yuan to take the initiative to attack now, as a veteran who has been in the political arena for so many years, Gao Chong can't afford the pressure from the emperor and ministers.

There is also the fact that he can't bear the consequences of the failure of this reform, because this is the only chance for the military general to turn over.

So he must take the lead in attacking, whether it succeeds or fails, this gesture must be made, if Cheng Xiuyi has any mistakes, then this responsibility can only be borne by Gao Chong.

Therefore, Xia Yuan's side attacked first, and the first to attack was the long-range strike force, and the first to attack was Xia Yuan's magic anti-aircraft crossbow.

Although the name is an anti-aircraft repeater, this repeater can be used both high and flat, and can be used for curved fire, and the range is super long and powerful.

A repeater's crossbow* arrows can blow up a large crater, a hundred sets of magic repeaters, and a set of repeaters can shoot twelve crossbow* arrows at once.

And a hundred sets of repeaters can shoot 1,200 crossbow arrows at a time, don't underestimate these 1,200 crossbow arrows, the power of these crossbow arrows can blow up a large area.

The 1,200 crossbows roared towards the beast demon alliance, and at this time, the beast demon priests standing behind the beast demon alliance began to pray with their scepters in their hands, so the figures of the main gods appeared behind them, there were the gods of wind, fire, water, beasts, war, light, plants, time and space, and life, of course, the doppelgangers of these gods are all gods of the West, as the Eastern Zhongzhou Continent with a history of 10,000 years, it naturally has its own gods in charge of these elements, but Xia Yuan officials These gods are called immortals。

However, since the divine arts cultivated by the beast demon clan are all derived from the divine art system of the Western continent, their belief is naturally these Western gods, so the divine shadows they summon are naturally the divine shadows of Western gods.

And the profession of sacrifice was also transmitted from the West, there was no sacrifice in the Zhongzhou Continent in the East, there was no sacrifice in the Oriental traditional Wuliang Religion, and there was no Zen Buddhism that was later introduced to the Zhongzhou Continent, but later due to the persecution of the ancestors of the beast demon clan to the Zhongzhou Continent, this profession was also brought to the East.

The shadows of these gods raised their hands in the air, and in their hands they gathered into a dazzling divine light, which was finally infused into the scepter in the hands of these priests.

When the shadows of these main gods disappeared, the prayer of the beast demon sacrifice was also over, and they waved their scepters to form a huge protective shield of divine power in front of and above the entire beast demon alliance.

This kind of protective shield can't protect the physical attacks of these spell repeaters, and the beast demon side also knows that although the damage of this kind of repeater is huge, but that's because the crossbow shot by these repeaters contains a powerful magic power, so the power is huge, if you use magic to eliminate these spells, then its power will be greatly reduced.

But it was enough for the Beast Demon Alliance, and because of the main force of these Beast Demon Clan, they were all tall and strong, so each of them held a huge shield in their hands, and they combined the shields to block the attacks of those giant crossbows* arrows that fell from the sky.

However, even if these giant crossbows have lost a certain amount of magic blessings, they cannot be completely eliminated, and another thing is that these crossbow arrows are huge, so their physical power is also very large.

Although the shields used by the beast demons were huge, they still could not defend themselves against the attacks of the giant crossbows that fell from the sky.

A giant crossbow will shoot down six or seven beast demon soldiers, only to see the beast demon alliance phalanx constantly splashing patches of blood, to say that Gao Chong dared to take the initiative to attack this time One of the main reasons is because of the biggest lethal weapon in his hand, these anti-aircraft crossbows can all participate in the attack.

Due to the strong air power of the beast demon alliance in the past, these air defense crossbows all had to deal with the air power of the beast demon.

We all have a common sense that it is very easy for air power to attack ground or sea power, but it is the opposite for ground or sea power to attack air power.

Now that the air power of the Beast Demon Alliance was almost lost in the booby trap battle in the early morning, Gao Chong was able to use all of his air defense forces for the attack.

Namurdo, who was riding a wolf in the rear of his camp, was very annoyed, and he already knew early on that his air power was almost lost.

This news made Namurdo really feel a little ominous, and he was also very distressed, he did not expect that humans could be so cunning.

But it is useless to say anything now, and only by winning the decisive battle in front of us can we reverse this unfavorable situation.