In January of the 569th year of the Eltino calendar, the central capital of the Eltino

When Lancelot infiltrated the Demon Realm and carried out a special mission, the demons in the Human Realm did not wait quietly for him to return. Although Yinzhen's injuries have not yet fully healed, the offensive operation of the demon clan has begun.

From the appearance of the demons in the middle capital, to the order to send troops to attack, there were more than 20 days in between, in these 20 days, the demons did not have any military action except for sending poisonous dragons to attack Jixia and Kunlun Mountain, which really made the world feel suspicious, and they couldn't guess what medicine was sold in the demons' gourd.

However, the demons in the middle capital city are not idle, although there are also leisurely people like Hülegü, but the ministers, including Shi Chong, are all worried about the problem of replenishing the soldiers, making all kinds of efforts, while transferring masters from the combat power of guarding the Ten Thousand Demon Palace, and on the other hand, they are also trying to pull tens of millions of demonized humans into their own camp.

According to official statistics, among the tens of millions of demonized humans in Zhongdu, less than a million still have the ability to think, and the rest are some demonic beasts that rely on wild instincts to act, although they are powerful and can be very effective on the battlefield, but they can't do anything other than destruction. Not to mention helping with construction, just raising these magical beasts is a very headache.

The group of demonic beasts can be driven, but it is impossible to include his own side, so what Shi Chong has to do is to pull the nearly one million newborn demons who still retain their sanity into his own camp. Coercion and temptation are useful for more than ninety percent of creatures, this is true for humans, and the same is true for these newborn demons, especially when they look at their ugly appearance in the mirror and know that they will never return to their old appearance, many people have a self-defeating mentality, join the completely strange demon race, and pledge their allegiance to the Great Demon God King.

So, within more than 20 days, Shi Chong built a new demon army. At the same time, Hülegü also used his personal charm to form a mixed army of people and demons loyal to him from the old Medici family, some of the White Deer Cave disciples, some of the Eltino army, and some demons, and handed over to his father Yinzhen.

When Hülegü and Shi Chong had their own personal strength, Yinzhen, as their leader, issued a summoning order to them.

"On January 25th, we talked about fishing in the back garden of Meixi, fishing for fun. ”

In order to announce the entire plan to attack the human world, Yinzhen issued a decree to summon all Hülegü, Shi Chong and others into the palace to listen to his ruling, but the form of the summoning was a little strange, not to discuss the main hall, but to summon people to the artificial stream by the edge of the imperial garden to fish together.

"What kind of fish do you catch at a critical juncture when you are doing big things?"

The stupid person who will directly ask this question can be said to be none among Yinzhen's ministers, because compared to Cao Shou's mediocre disguise in the past, the current style is the traditional style of the Great Demon God King.

A person who can sit firmly on the throne of the Ten Thousand Demons Hall requires not only martial arts and wisdom, but also the so-called power arts. When the Great Demon God King of the past generations was in control, he would put on an unfathomable posture, making it difficult for his subordinates to guess his thoughts, and then because of the "unpredictable nature", he was terrified and fearful, so the Great Demon God King sometimes deliberately issued some strange orders and did some inexplicable behaviors, so that his subordinates couldn't guess the meaning even if they wanted to break through their minds, and finally understood the king's foresight.

Therefore, none of the courtiers thought that the order of "fishing" was very strange, but they all thought that His Majesty the Demon King must have some important things to announce, so he would deliberately make this mystery.

The discord between Hülegü and Shi Chong, of course, there is no need to hide it at this time, and the two have a tacit understanding to enter the palace from different palace gates, avoiding the displeasure of meeting when they enter the palace, but the time of the meeting cannot be too late, otherwise this kind of little trick will get out of control and attract the blame of the king, which will be self-defeating. Hülegü, who chose to enter the palace alone without an entourage, met an unexpected person in front of the palace gate.

"Is His Royal Highness the prince here to enter the palace to meet you?"

Returning to the original appearance of Chengxue's skin and red pupils, Hao Kelian, who appeared in the form of a demon, happened to be standing at the gate of the palace, watching Xu Liegu come over;

In the battle in the middle capital, Hao Kelian and Hua Tianxie both fell into Bai Qi's trap and were caught up in the power of the main reactor explosion. At that time, Hao Kelian was already seriously injured, if it weren't for the fact that Hua Tianyi was buffered in front of her and set up a layer of air shield, she would have died in that shocking explosion.

Afterwards, she and Hua Tianxie were rescued by the demons in their dying lives, and Hua Tianxie was more injured than Hao Kelian because she tried to save one more person in that harsh environment. Both of them were personally treated by Yinzhen, and with the invincible power of the Taitian position, they quickly recovered in a short period of time and reclassified into the existing combat power of the demon race.

The Great Demon God King personally helped his subordinates heal their injuries, and if it was another object, it would be surprising, but when the object was Hao Kelian, the demons took it for granted.

As early as the Cao Shou period, Yinzhen and Hao Kelian had dealings. They are not men and women, but maintain a physical relationship that takes what they need from each other. Seeing all this in his eyes, Hülegü often sighed, Senior Brother Gongjin also knew about this matter, if Gongjin could be particularly careful in this regard, he might be able to see through some clues, and then guess Cao Shou's true face, but after Gongjin was widowed, he was almost clean in the affairs of men and women, and deliberately avoided it psychologically, so that Gongjin was not able to see some obvious problems.

"Why do you enter the palace alone? I'm afraid it's not safe to do this. ”

In the demon camp, Hao Kelian is not Shi Chong's faction, although both sides are under Yinzhen's orders, but Hao Kelian and Shi Chong are not harmonious, therefore, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and Hülegü and Hao Kelian maintain a relationship that is neither good nor bad.

"I'm tired of worrying. But I believe in my own proportions, hey, you have so much control, you don't want to be my stepmother, do you?"

The joke is enough here, both sides know that this kind of thing is not possible, in fact, Yinzhen has never been established during his reign, before becoming the Great Demon God King, although there is a woman who gave birth to a child for him, but he has never given an official title, Hao Kelian, who has a pillow relationship with Yinzhen, never thinks that she can rely on this to get any privileges, but deeply feels a sense of caution and fear that accompanies the king like a tiger, because she knows very well what happened to those concubines who were originally in the harem of the Ten Thousand Demon Palace.

The two entered the imperial garden together, Shi Chong and others also came in from the other side, and soon after meeting Yinzhen by the stream, they received an edict from Yinzhen, ordering Shi Chong and Hülegü to command their troops separately and begin to attack the human world.

"The assault on the human realm has officially begun!"

For some of the lowest-level demon soldiers, they came to the human world in order to rebuild the past glory of the demon race, and they thought that they would be high-spirited in the first battle, and ended up in a big defeat with heavy casualties, which undoubtedly hit their morale, but as long as His Majesty the Great Demon God King and the leadership that constitute the main combat force are still there, their advantages are still there, so when the order to send troops to attack is conveyed, everyone is gearing up, eager to go out as soon as possible and establish their own martial arts.

Low-level demon soldiers can think like this, but as a leader-level demon, they can't look at things so simply and optimistically. They were able to meet Yinzhen directly, and they felt deep doubts about the current developments.

Headed by Shi Chong, the generals who commanded the actual combat troops of the demon clan, the earliest tactical idea was to invite Yinzhen to suppress the formation, with his invincible martial arts in the world, directly attack Reins, and sweep and eliminate the enemy's base, which is the most direct and effective method, although Yinzhen's injuries have not completely healed, how much it affects personal strength, but looking around the contemporary era, no one can compete with it, even if he is injured, Yinzhen is still invincible in the world.

But the development of the situation was not as they imagined, Yinzhen assigned the tasks and missions to everyone, and handed over all the actual combat work to his subordinates, showing that the Great Demon God King had no intention of standing on the front line and participating in the battle in person. This kind of practice, in any other organization, will inevitably escape the infamy of cowardice and war, but no demon clan will believe that this generation of the Great Demon God King Yinzhen is a coward who is afraid of death.

Yinzhen's refusal to stand on the front line of the battle, which caused a lot of speculation and rumors afterwards, some people believe that it was because he was too seriously injured by Li Yu, just like he was severely injured by Temujin back then, at least a thousand years of recuperation, so he could not stand on the front line, however, Shi Chong and other subordinates who had followed Yinzhen for many years easily denied this rumor.

In the past, when Yinzhen was injured, his expression and eyes were different from now. Following years of deep understanding, Shi Chong knows very well what Yinzhen looks like when he is seriously injured, and the last few times he has paid homage, Yinzhen not only does not look like he is injured, but seems to be thinking about something. So, for what reason is Yinzhen unwilling to personally destroy the enemy, but uses this tactic that is more costly and more casualty for the demons?

Shi Chong believes that with Yinzhen's shrewdness, there must be a very profound reason behind this, taking into account the interests of the real demon clan. Although Yinzhen never explained this question, Shi Chong secretly speculated and got an answer.

"Your Majesty's insight far surpasses ours, and his gaze has already gone beyond the battlefield in front of him, and he is contemplating the conquest of the human realm. ”

Before invading the human world, Yinzhen's only scruples were Li Yu and Bai Qi, whose strength was unpredictable, and now these two superstars have fallen, and the rest of the children are not to be feared, although the demon clan has also paid a lot of price, but looking at the human world, there is no resistance, and occupying the entire Wind Continent is just a natural job.

The question is, what about after the occupation?

Yinzhen is no longer young, although he can still sit firmly on the supreme position for hundreds of years, but he can't help but consider the problem of the successor, in addition, the rule of the demon race itself is also a big problem, after occupying the human world, how to establish a system to maintain the balance of power between the demon factions, these are all to start acting early.

"Your Majesty wants the courtiers to compete with each other and establish their own merits in the human realm, so they retreat into the background, and on the other hand, maintain checks and balances on both sides. ”

When Shi Chong explained his subordinates in this way, Hülegü also made an additional explanation for his subordinates.

"To put it simply, we should pull each other back, and he will insidiously sit on the side and reap the fisherman's profits. ”

The rebellious words, Xu Liewu shrugged his shoulders and said them as if nothing happened, and invisibly pointed out a certain truth.

In the imperial mastery technique, the courtiers are too compatible with each other, and one or two highly respected No. 2 figures appear, which may threaten the supremacy of the emperor; compared with this situation, dividing the courtiers into two or three small groups, and fighting each other because of interests and ideas, within the control of the emperor, will not only make the king's position more stable, but also facilitate the control and control of the ministers.

Of course, Hülegü was well aware of these tricks, and although he acknowledged that they had their effects, he never and did not want to use this kind of dark atmosphere of domination when he was in charge of the Medici family, and no matter how much benefit it might bring, Hülegü was tired of being drawn into such never-ending petty struggles.

It's not really a life-and-death struggle, it's just a captivity in a small fishbowl with no visible frame, fiddled with by an invisible hand. In victory, the hand will prevent him from delivering the final blow, and when he retreats, he will be guaranteed the final limit, and such a struggle is just a joker's anticles, and Hülegü deeply resents such a practice.

Despite his displeasure, Hülegü didn't have much choice in this regard, and the path in front of him was not only clear-cut, but also very narrow, so that he could only frown and look at the two options at hand: Jixia and Kunlun Mountain.

"Why don't you choose either? I am not such a hardworking person in the examination papers, and even if I am sent on the expedition, it is not a guarantee of victory. ”

Having said that, Hülegü is the second combat force of the current demon clan, no one can ignore his existence, no matter how tactical considerations are made, he will bear the brunt, and as far as Hülegü's situation is concerned, if he keeps out of the matter, then Shi Chong's faction's voice and status will increase day by day, and finally threaten him, so Hülegü needs appropriate meritorious service and diligence to not let his situation worsen.

"I really don't know who I'm working so hard for?"

Joining the demon camp is an irrelevant question for Hülegü, whether it is the evolution of the state or the strength ratio between the two sides, this is a correct judgment, but why is his level of trouble more than twice as high as before?

Despite his desperation, Hülegü took over the attack on Reyns. Going to Kunlun Mountain to seize the Immortal Tree, it seems that he will encounter the obstruction of the enemy's masters, so last time the poisonous dragon group will be wiped out, and none of them will come back, according to Shi Chong's research and judgment afterwards, the people who are in the way there are likely to be Hai Jiaxuan and Mei Lin;

"Robbing plants and kidnapping disabled ladies, this kind of work is too gloomy, or it is more suitable for me to step on the grass and go down to the city. ”

Hülegü didn't just say a lot of words, he originally had a long talent in military generals, and he didn't have much chance to play since the Maishi War, but now once he made up his mind, the actions he took were very strong, and the demon troops under his command were drawn to the Longteng Mountains within a few days, and on the day of arrival, they attacked the North Gate Tianguan like a bamboo, and broke through it.

"It's not surprising at all that such a natural tactic was used, should we say that the Reyns people are smart?

The ease of attacking the danger was not at all surprising to Hulegu, because the enemy had no intention of defending at all. The demon troops attacking the North Gate Tianguan encountered the counterattack of the Ancient Demon Dao automatic weapons, but they did not encounter half of the enemy, only more than 100 robots and automatic guns counterattacked them.

The demons did not come to the battlefield with their bare hands, in addition to the weapons in their hands, they also had siege equipment and chariots, although these instruments were crudely made, but it was easier to exert the brute strength of the demon soldiers, especially when they rode the heavy chariots pulled by the unicorn lion, rushing towards the enemy formation, and those metal robots that stood in front of them could not even resist, they were crushed under the wheels.

After a short round of fighting, the demon soldiers destroyed all the automaton of the Ancient Demon Dao and occupied the North Gate Tianguan.

"Although it is the most correct strategy, however, the degree of decisiveness of the enemy, hmm...... Interesting. ”

If he and Reyns's decision-maker change places, he will definitely make such a decision, because after Reins welcomes back the Queen Mother of the West, he should have learned the secret of the immortal tree, and the focus of the guard is not only Jixia itself, but also Kunlun Mountain;

However, the North Gate Tianguan has a favorable location, if a strong barrier is set up, it is not easy for the demon army to break through, for any defender, according to the North Gate Tianguan and guard, it is a big temptation, it is not easy to give up this temptation, therefore, when Hülegü sees the empty North Gate Tianguan, he will give the opponent such a high evaluation.

"How long have you been gone? Ah, forgetting a more important thing......"

Seeing that the demon troops had completely destroyed the ancient demon Dao weapons and were about to move into the North Gate Heavenly Pass, Hülegü was suddenly shocked and immediately ordered all the teams to retreat and leave the North Gate Heavenly Pass at full speed. As soon as this order was issued, the sound of an earth-shattering explosion spread through the sky, and the explosion from inside the North Gate Tianguan enveloped the entire mountain in flames and storms.

Driving the lion chariot, the demon soldiers frantically spurred the one-horned lion pulling the cart, trying to escape from the explosion range, but the rolling wave of flames took a step faster, starting from the back of the team, and quickly swallowed the demon generals who could not be avoided.

The intense shock wave and high-temperature flames roared and swept in all directions, and the sturdy special building materials were engulfed by the red flames in an instant, and together with the demon troops who were exploring nearby, they all became victims of this explosion, turning into churning mushroom-like fire clouds that shot out into the sky.

"Alas, two thousand years have passed, and mankind has really made a lot of progress, and during the Kyushu War, there was no such a tricky enemy as the white character family. ”

Hülegü would not sit idly by and watch the damage expand, when the explosion occurred, he had already shot out from the top of the mountain where he was standing, and shot at full speed towards the rolling flame storm, using his own strength to stop the extension of the line of fire; this force that blew up the entire North Gate Tianguan was too strong, and Hulegu retreated dozens of feet in the air, and finally relied on the supreme strength of the Zhai Tian position, which was the spread of the line of fire to suppress.

However, Reyns's vicious trap is not the only one, and after the explosion, there are also some small gifts that follow. During the Kyushu War, the demon army did not encounter the ancient demon dao weapons, and in the next two thousand years, there was no chance to see the relevant machinery, in fact, not to mention the demons, even the people on the wind continent, not many people knew the basic knowledge of the primeval demon dao, so when the mushroom-shaped spitting fire cloud gradually disappeared, and the sky began to float down little by little white silk, no one in the demon soldiers present knew what it was, and instinctively reached out to grab it.

A little bit of white floc is like a snowflake, slowly falling, it looks so beautiful, but only Hülegü knows the truth, knowing that the atomic dust that fell from the polluted sky after the nuclear explosion is more powerful than any poison, and now only the force can roll up the wind again, blowing these atomic dust like the first snow into the sky again, and scattering it to other mountains around.

This was the right judgment, but it was still a little slow in time, and this delay took a big toll after the fact, as all the demon soldiers who were playing with the atomic dust were infected by the radiation, and died in large numbers within three months, and in the next two years, all the survivors were wiped out one by one.

Hülegü's first battle against Reyns ended in such a disgraceful form, and the vanguard of his attack on the North Gate Tianguan can be said to be completely annihilated, leaving no one behind, but compared to this defeat, what makes Hülegü feel that what should be paid attention to is the enemy's determination to resist.

"Hurt yourself first, and then hurt the enemy, although this victory is beautiful, but the price paid in advance is not small, can the future battles be handled in parallel?"

Hülegü spoke lightly, hitting the heart of the problem. Reyns's first victory did not cause much damage to the demon army, at best, it only frustrated the spirit, but this victory was the sacrifice of the North Gate Tianguan, and the entire operation of the North Gate Tianguan was reduced to nothing in exchange, once the demon clan leader drove straight into the territory of Reyns, will those people under Ji repeat this tactic?

Maximize the tactics of clearing the wilderness, so that every inch of Reyns's land becomes scorched earth, and with the consciousness of dying together, he fought fiercely with the demons in the poor mountains and bad waters until the last moment. This was the tactic that Reins Tilren once adopted at the end of the Kyushu War, which was originally a strategy that would never be used lightly until the end, but this time it was brazenly used in the first confrontation between humans and demons, so that Hülegü noticed the enemy's determination.

"There is no clearer war statement than this, and I already understand your enlightenment. But don't think I'm the kind of guy who doesn't fight back when I get beaten. ”

Hulegu made such a statement, and in fact, although no one would think of him as such a great good man, few people expected that his counterattack would come so quickly.

On the evening of the day when Hülegü's attack on the North Gate Tianguan was frustrated, there was a change in the sky above Jixia City, first the flow of clouds became faster, followed by the phenomenon of electric discharge in the air, and not long after, the raging fire ignited from the sky, dyeing the entire canopy red in an instant, and then in a series of whistling sounds, a bright meteor shower fell from the sky and frantically hit the ground.

On average, each meteor is only the size of a tabletop, and the volume is not huge, but when these meteors drag their flaming tails and carry a strong impact from the sky, the destructive effect is not trivial, enough to cause heavy casualties in Jixia City.

Fortunately, the city of Jixia has the strongest defensive force of Reins Tiren, a crimson figure flew into the sky, and the snow-white needle sword pierced intensively, destroying all the meteor showers that entered a radius of 100 feet, and none of them caused damage to the buildings in the city.

"Miss Feng'er's swordsmanship has improved again, which is gratifying. ”

Looking up at this scene from below was Gengoro. Lancelot is not there, as the chief combat force of Reyns, he does not need to rush to take action at any task, in terms of the division of responsibilities, the task of guarding and guarding is temporarily handed over to Feng'er.

Feng'er's sword attack only destroyed more than a dozen meteors, and the breach in the sky suddenly disappeared, along with the more than 100 meteorites that were supposed to pass through the breach, all of them were locked in a certain place in another space. Compared with Feng'er's great power, although not many people have noticed this matter, anyone with a discerning eye knows who did it.

One of Xiaocao's abilities is that she can nullify all magic, and she can't make it disappear for those meteor entities that have appeared, but she can fight back against the magic that maintains the spatial rift, as long as the magic is neutralized, the spatial rift will automatically disappear, and the attack will be reduced to nothing.

"Hülegü's counterattack came so quickly, and it was so vicious. ”

"Well, you really didn't expect him to attack Jixia directly, but only to this extent, it doesn't seem to be vicious. ”

"If there is only this level, then Hülegü is not Hülegü. ”

"Oh, you mean he has a second wave of attacks?"

"No, no, all attacks should be over by this time. ”

When he spoke, Xiaocao always looked up at the sky, and the translucent figure was almost invisible in the sunset, and Gengoro suddenly woke up and understood that Hülegü's attack on Jixia was just one of many attacks, although it could not hurt Jishita, but it effectively blocked Jishita's combat power, and could not take into account the war zone outside Jishita; 。

Two thousand years have passed since the Kyushu War, and both humans and demons have made progress. The ancient demon path technology developed by the Bai family made the demons suffer a lot as soon as the war began, but in terms of magic technology, the demons were originally better than humans, and the research in the past two thousand years has obtained extraordinary results, and the actual application on the battlefield has surprised Xiaocao, because such a long-range jumping teleportation technology is currently not mastered by Reyns.

If there was only such a technique, the lethality would be limited, but Hülegü had a mind that could double the lethality. The poisonous dragon group failed to attack Jixia, Hulegu not only saw the information of Jixia's defense system, but also saw the fact that his own teleportation technology was exposed, and attacked Jixia again, the enemy must be prepared, so he calculated the enemy's psychology, and at the same time as launching a meteor attack on Jixia, a large number of meteor shower attacks also fell on other cities in Reins.

"Our vanguard is still at the North Gate Tianguan, but the attack is not limited to here. The attack tactics of space-time teleportation have its inherent limitations, and it takes a long time to attack cities above the medium scale, or the group of magicians has to rest for a long time afterwards, which is very impractical, so we need to use our brains to maximize its effect. ”

Hülegü explained his tactics and said, "There is no need for an attack that is too lethal, everything is based on the principle of allowing the magician to retain his magic power. The focus of our tactics lies in the odd and chaotic, and the time before and after the process should be short and fast, and after smashing this city, it will immediately smash the next city. ”

"Your Highness, it only takes ten seconds for each city to launch a meteor shower, and if it doesn't cause too many casualties, it will take at least three minutes or more. ”

"Who said I'm going to cause heavy casualties? Can't you use your brains?"

Hülegü didn't just drop this sentence, he led his subordinates to think and educate them to understand what they meant.

At present, the Jixia side has undoubtedly made up its mind, following the practice of the Kyushu War, concentrating all resources and combat power in the capital, abandoning other places, and definitely not allowing the demons to have a chance to defeat each other. This tactic was highly praised by Hülegü, so he launched an attack on the important city of Reins Tiren, causing fear and commotion among the people, and causing chaos in the situation.

The human heart is a very fragile thing, and as long as chaos can blind reason, it will cause damage. The people who refuse to be abandoned will inevitably flock to Jixia in large numbers, so how will the Jixia side deal with it? Being overcrowded by a large number of refugees and depleting their supplies prematurely? Or will they rationally turn them away? But in this way, the mob will definitely resist, and when the time comes, the demon army has not yet arrived, and there will be fierce battles outside Jixia City.

"Wouldn't it be great to be able to make human beings make a mess of their own battles, and then we can easily reap the fruits? From ancient times to the present, what human beings are best at is to beat themselves. ”

Hülegü's explanation made all his subordinates applaud and admire, and they praised him for being resourceful and good at planning.

"Of course, I'm a demon! It's my job to make humans suffer. ”

This sentence later spread to all directions, and became a proud phrase that all demons supported and humans cursed, but in fact, Hülegü still had a sentence in his heart.

"Good people don't live long, and if I don't show my powerful means occasionally, the enemy and us will step on my head more and more. ”

The first battle between the demons and the human race was the scorched earth battle at the North Gate Tianguan, and the second battle that followed was the unguardable fire and rain from the sky, as well as the psychological warfare that followed.

The two sides have not yet made official contact, but the flames of war have already raged, and neither Hülegü nor Xiaocao can guess where the opponent's third move will be.