On the ninth day of January in the year 780 of the Imperial calendar, in the middle of the night, a large red moon came up from behind a bare wood, the moon shimmered with the blood-red refraction of war and fire, and the smoke shone dimly on the snow-covered ridges on both sides of the Greywater River.

In the middle of the night, the demon garrison stationed at Waga Ferry on the west bank of the Greywater River felt that the ground below them was constantly shaking and sinking, and the demon soldiers who woke up in their sleep jumped out of the tent barefoot in a hurry, and involuntarily let out a terrifying scream: "Gluxi!" (Help!")

Like a ghost suddenly appearing in the night, a phalanx of 10,000 heavily armored cavalry is rushing towards them! The neat and dense black-armored cavalry is like a steel wall, and it is like a mountain of swords and a sea of swords rushing towards them. The sound of cracked and piercing horses' hooves rolled like thunder, and they were like a whirlwind, sweeping and destroying a qiē. In the face of this terrible torrent of destruction, the fences, tents, houses, and people and horses of the demon clan crushed like paper paste, and the demon soldiers who scattered and fled for their lives let out a scream of death, which was crushed into powder by this torrent of steel......

In the early hours of the morning, 10,000 heavy armored cavalry first snatched the Waga Ferry, chopping thousands of panicked demons into pieces. Immediately, next to the corpses of the demons, five pontoon bridges were erected on the surface of the Greywater River, and the powerful infantry group quickly crossed the wide largest river in the Far East. At dawn, Stirling's troops unexpectedly appeared under the city of Pai on the east bank of the Grey River.

The victory overwhelmed the mind of the demon commander Baron Mooy, and the entire army had just drunk and carnivaled the night before, so careless that there was no sentry arrangement. In the last darkness before dawn, hordes of human infantry silently poured into the sleeping empty city, countless spear tips glittering in the darkness like sparks on the prairie. They quickly seized the city's main communication arteries, blocked two gates, and aimed five thousand crossbows at the open camp gates.

As soon as they were ready, Commander Stirling gave an order: "Do it!" The soldiers began to dump fuel and throw torches, and the demon camp was suddenly plunged into a raging fire. Only a few demon soldiers who were able to stay awake were able to escape from the fire, and one by one they jumped out of the camp gate and shouted, "Dusara?" (what's going on?) and answered them with a sharp arrow that hit the eye. More than 20,000 demons were sealed in the camp and burned alive and choked to death, and some of them managed to escape with their bare hands, and what appeared in front of them were thousands of human soldiers armed with sharp blades and full of hatred - Stirling wanted to stop this fanatical slaughter, but it had no effect, and even the commanders of the various divisions who ostensibly accepted the order were also Yang Feng yīn disobeyed, and secretly encouraged the soldiers: "Kill me!" In the end, Sterling could only send his own guards out and snatch more than a dozen demons alive from the crazy butcher's knives of his subordinates: this is also the last survivor of the demon moy legion.

From the mouth of the captive, I learned that the new demon army of more than 10,000 people in three teams was coming, and they had come to Pai City to assemble and rendezvous with Baron Mooy, and it was estimated that they would arrive today. Sterling, who learned of this precious information, kissed the dirty demon clan chief Mao Bing on the spot, and then felt disgusted again, and ordered: "Push him out and cut him!" He quickly ordered: immediately extinguish the fire in the camp, especially find a way to rescue the demon uniforms and armor in the munitions warehouse......

In fact, the captive still didn't tell the truth: it wasn't the three teams that arrived, but all ten teams of the Demon Orle Legion! When they came to the city of Payi, they didn't find anything unusual: the city gate was open, there were a few guards standing lazily below, and there were some people basking in the sun on the city, all of which were normal, except for a thick black pillar of smoke rising above the city, and the smell of burnt meat in the air - but this was also normal, especially in the area that the demon army had just occupied.

Legion Leader Ou Le frowned: "That guy Mooy, you haven't gotten tired of playing for so long! It's really bloody enough, you've killed all the human captives, what kind of pastime are we here for?" He was sullen, and he didn't even notice that the demon soldiers guarding the city gate were blinking and grimacing at him. Because this is the territory of their own people in the rear of the demons, and because since the start of the war, the invincible demon army has not encountered any decent resistance at all, Ou Le has made the same mistake as Baron Mooy, and even the marching procedure of sending a vanguard into the city to check has been omitted, and more than 30,000 troops have entered the city unguarded, the queue is loose, the soldiers are talking and laughing, and even the weapons are put in the horse bags and not taken out.

Seeing that Ou Le's troops had already entered the city for a small time, and even Ou Le himself was about to enter, and the tragedy of closing the door and beating the dog was about to be repeated again, a very patriotic demon captive couldn't stand it anymore, and shouted: "Lord Ou Le, there is an ambush ......" A sharp arrow that came out of nowhere quickly penetrated his throat, and he fell down with a "gurgling" sound in his throat.

The troops are in disarray, searching for the daring Assassin. At this moment, a terrible sound of "crunch" sounded: the heavy city gate gate suddenly fell, crushing several demon cavalry below into meat sauce! At this time, Ou Le himself was also in the city road, and it almost became a meat product. He withdrew angrily, and scolded with his fingers: "What's going on up there! Crush people to death, open the door quickly!" An arrow flew in and killed him.

Rows and rows of dense archers appeared on the head of the city, and arrows rained down on the unsuspecting Oral-troops, and for a while, the people turned their horses on their backs, and the suddenly closed city gate cut the Oral-Le troops into two sections that could not be corresponding, and the troops lost their commanders and could not decide to advance or retreat, and they were in chaos. The same scene was also played out in the city, the human soldiers were ambushed on the rooftops and in the waterways, and suddenly appeared to the demon soldiers marching on the street without cover and stabbed with arrows and spears, and the demon soldiers fled in panic, but they fell into various traps one by one.

Someone on the head of the city shouted in the demon language: "You damn humans want to pretend to be our gods!

The lieutenant commander of the Oral's force was a slow 205, and he still thought it was a misunderstanding, shouting, "Don't let go of the arrows, we are friendly troops!" only to attract a more dense rain of arrows and a burst of laughter. When he finally understood: "Fooled! It's a human!" The anger of being fooled by the humans suddenly burned his mind, and he shouted: "Avenge the adults! Kill them all!" and forcibly ordered his subordinates, who had already suffered heavy casualties, to climb the city wall and storm the zhōngyāng army. The only result was that thousands of dead bodies were left under the city walls, and the opportunity to flee and retreat was missed. When he finally realized that something seemed to be wrong, the wind and clouds behind him were thunderous, and the black and oppressive human heavy armored cavalry appeared from the dense forest behind him, and swept in the mountains and seas...... In this battle, there were not many Orle legions that could escape, especially the vanguard troops who had already entered the city, and not even a single one of them escaped.

In one day, he continuously wiped out more than 50,000 troops of the two army of the demons, but Stirling was still not satisfied, in order to receive the maximum effect of shocking the demons, he sent the troops all the way out to "demonstrate", and instructed them to "play as many flags as possible!"

The quartermaster protested: "My lord, we don't have so many military flags!"

Sterling said impatiently: "Who said it must be a military flag? As long as it is a bamboo pole with a piece of cloth on it!"

Just have your words. In the evening of the same day, large human forces appeared on several roads in Tussauds at the same time.

In the sunset, the mighty army is like a rainbow, the horses are like dragons, the people are like tigers, the soldiers are dressed in sharp and murderous spirits, and above their heads, a sea of flags is waving in the wind:

"Imoto Daiichi Department Store 1st Anniversary Sale!"

"Vomit blood price! Jump off the building and clear the auction!"

"Pretty shampoo, black and shiny, no dandruff!"

"The little pimple is gone!--White Cosmetics Series!"

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Along the way, the small army of the demon clan frightened the sea of flags fluttering in the distance: according to the practice of human armies, one military flag per brigade is calculated, then this is at least ...... They fled in the wilderness, counting their fingers and toes, but they could not count them, and at last they had to ask their companions, "Lend me your fingers and I will count them together!" - they ran too early to notice that these menacing and terrifying shell armies waited for the sun to set, and then hurried up their flags and ran back to the city of Pai.

The next day, when the sun came out, Stirling's troops ran to the same place again, and many advertising flags fluttered overhead, which made the demons tremble: reinforcements were coming all the way!

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(Later Tang Chuan believed: "The main reason for Sterling's success is that the spies of the Demon Race are illiterate, and they can't tell the difference between the military flag and the advertising flag!)

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The spies went back to the demon command and described this terrible scene: an astonishing number of human armies swooped down and covered the sky. In order to escape the punishment of escaping from the battle, the remnants of the Orle army also came to help: "Yes, yes, we really fought bravely, but there are so many enemies that the entire Gray River Plain is too crowded to stand, what can we do?" The more than 100,000 people of the Stirling Legion continued to multiply automatically in the layer by layer reports, becoming 200,000, 300,000, and 400,000...... And the numbers are rising!

Moreover, according to the intelligence, a steady stream of armies is approaching the Maple Lin Danye, where the Demon God Emperor's residence is located! What makes the Demon God Emperor's escort officers mad is that as soon as these armies get close to a certain distance, they will immediately disappear and disappear without knowing where they are going! This proves even more that these cunning human beings have bad intentions: they must have lurked in some hidden dense forest, and as long as His Majesty's imperial chariot passes by, they will suddenly kill and join forces with the Stirling troops entrenched in Pai City, and attack back and forth! Isn't it often said in the books of war that the thief captures the king first! First strike at the opponent's command center, causing the whole army to shake and collapse, and finally break the opponent's peripheral troops one by one! This is the ABC in the art of war!

O Tiger of the Purple River, you are so cunning! Fortunately, we have seen through your tricks, and your plot will never succeed!

Duke Leo, the commander-in-chief of the Praetorian Guard, who was in charge of commanding all the soldiers and horses, trembled and pleaded with the Demon God Emperor: "At present, the enemy general Stirling is arrogant, the soldiers are extremely strong, and His Majesty is tied to the world, so it is really not appropriate to take the risk of arrows himself, and Wei Chen has the courage to implore His Majesty to avoid ...... first."

The God Emperor smiled faintly and said, "I don't need to avoid anyone. ”

The civil and military officials praised in unison, and said in unison: Our emperor is a martial artist, invincible in the world! Sterling is a clown who jumps off the beam, and he dares to commit an offense, and he will surely bring about his own destruction!

In the sound of singing praises of virtue, the mysterious military advisor in black clothes and black veils standing behind the God Emperor sighed softly behind his mask: "Your Majesty, if it is Zuo Jiaming, so what?"

The Demon God Emperor turned his head, and his voice was so light that it could only be heard by Xiang Wuyue: "Even if the Ming King is personal, I will also behead him under the horse." The God Emperor smiled lightly, his magnificent eyes were blue, deep and elusive, like the vast sea, blurry and like the fog of the early morning in winter, so beautiful that people were intoxicated.

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