Chapter 261: The Undead Legion Takes the Initiative
While feeling afraid, Ye Tianlong also secretly thanked Donghuang Taiyi in his heart for helping him block this killing, after all, relying on himself, he couldn't survive the demons' carefully planned air curse this time, the curse technique was very terrifying, it directly acted on the body and soul, Ye Tianlong felt dazzled before, it was because the magic power had begun to affect his physical body, if there was no Donghuang Taiyi to make a move, his body and soul would both fall into a state of dead silence in just a few minutes, No matter what you do, you can't get him back.
That is, the strength of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi was too strong, so he didn't take it seriously at all, and he dispelled the cursed power that was wrapped around his soul with one move, and then after returning to his physical body, Ye Tianlong didn't even have time to carefully sense the cold mana that was hidden and circulating in his body, and that power was quickly crushed and dispersed by the powerful divine power carried by the Eastern Emperor Taiyi's divine thoughts.
Now Ye Tianlong's body and soul not only did not become weakened by the influence of that curse technique, but on the contrary, his cultivation had increased greatly, and he had reached the Grandmaster Ninefold Realm, and he was only close to breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm.
Once he really succeeds in breaking through, Ye Tianlong can be regarded as the number one master even in the Xuangu Continent and the Abyss Demon Realm, after all, in these two worlds, it is generally the fourth-order master who is more active, as for the fifth-order master, it is already a demigod realm, and when he touches the mystery of the gods, he is busy retreating and wants to be promoted to a true god! Under normal circumstances, they don't come out for activities.
Even on the Xuangu Continent, because those mages are all specialized in mana and spiritual power, they can even rely on their powerful spiritual power to faintly touch the realm of gods and become god-descending masters when they are in the fourth order, so those mages don't even come out to act much when they are in the fourth order, and the strongest mages who are active outside are just some great mages in the late third order.
However, as far as Ye Tianlong knows, although those mages in the Xuangu Continent can touch the realm of gods higher than martial artists, but because the physical body is too fragile, the failure rate when they become gods is very high, and their own lifespan is not long because of the drag of the physical body, and the lifespan of a fourth-order divine descending master is generally only about six hundred years old, which is also one of the reasons why those mages have to start retreating and concentrating on cultivation early, after all, if they can't break through to the demigod realm before the longevity is exhausted, Then the cultivation of most of their previous lives would be meaningless, or if they didn't want to die like this, dust to dust, dust to dust, and dust to earth, those mages could also transform themselves into undead creatures such as lichs. Once successfully transformed, then they can gain at least five thousand years of lifespan, but if they want to ignite the divine fire when their soul essence is transformed into a yin soul, it will be even more difficult to break through to the demigod realm, and many lichs will be stuck in the fourth order for the rest of their lives.
After Ye Tianlong adapted to the strength that had skyrocketed because of the improvement of cultivation, a guard suddenly hurried over and reported a bad news to Ye Tianlong, that is, the queen and the crown prince had been assassinated, fortunately, the queen Li Rufeng had quietly broken through to the realm of the grandmaster before, so she was not successfully assassinated, but Yamila was seriously injured in order to protect the prince Ye Ping'an.
Ye Tianlong couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, and then quickly realized that this should be part of the demon's plan, it was not enough for them to assassinate themselves with the curse technique, and they also arranged for killers to assassinate his queen and crown prince, wanting to kill all the high-level leaders of the Blue Dragon Empire on the same day, so that the Blue Dragon Empire suddenly fell into a leaderless state.
If it weren't for the fact that Empress Li Rufeng had broken through to the Grandmaster realm not long ago and concealed the matter, making the number of assassins sent by the demons insufficient, his Empress and Prince would probably have been killed at this time.
In order to retaliate against the demons' actions, Ye Tianlong was determined to attack the demons' territory again, but because the regular soldiers were already very tired from fighting before, Ye Tianlong was not ready to send out soldiers, but was ready to send a small number of officers to lead the undead legion to attack.
During this time, the production of undead warriors has never stopped, and now the number of undead warriors has exceeded 20 million.
Ye Tianlong was going to leave 10 million soldiers and militia to garrison various places to guard against demon raids, and the other 10 million were ready to be sent out to attack the demons' territory.
Anyway, these undead warriors are very cheap to manufacture, and they don't feel distressed if they lose, Ye Tianlong just wants to disgust those demons, so that the other party has no moment to relax.
Because this operation was voluntary, Zhou Xiaoyang, the militia centurion who was the first to contact the undead soldiers, took the initiative to sign up for an operation.
Since the last time he led those undead warriors to destroy the invading enemy army, he has now been promoted from the rank of lieutenant to the upper rank, and it is even said that he will be promoted to the rank of commander after he makes more merits, and will give him a baron.
Zhou Xiaoyang wanted a noble title too much, so this time when he saw an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, he would sign up so enthusiastically.
Soon, Zhou Xiaoyang and the other ninety-nine officers and soldiers who took the initiative to sign up were assigned to a group, which also had a centurion, but the seniority was not as old as Zhou Xiaoyang, so he took the initiative to give up the position of commander to Zhou Xiaoyang, and what was assigned to them was a full 10,000 undead warriors, and they were all the elites among them, among those skeleton soldiers, more than 2,000 have been upgraded to skeleton archers, and among those zombies, more than 1,000 have also been upgraded to zombie warriors.
After receiving these 10,000 undead warriors, everyone did not stop, and soon set off, their target was a small town in the northwest of the demon's territory, where the defenders were less than a thousand people, so everyone felt that this time it was definitely easy to take.
Other teams also set off one after another, there is a team of only 10,000 undead warriors like Zhou Xiaoyang, and there is also a large team composed of more than 100,000 undead warriors, that is several familiar officers who contact each other and form a team to prepare to do a big one, after all, as long as this force is enough, even these weak undead warriors can bite the elephant to death, with hundreds of thousands of undead armies in hand, even if it is a large city, they dare to touch it, anyway, there is no punishment if they lose, If you win, you will be rewarded.
Zhou Xiaoyang didn't have that much courage, so he only dared to take his team members to attack a small town with a relatively remote location.
Because there was no requirement for the time of their attack, this time the military headquarters did not even send personnel carriers to help them transport the undead soldiers, they could only follow the undead soldiers on slow foot towards the target.
In order to save physical strength, Zhou Xiaoyang did not walk by themselves most of the time, but sat on the simple sliding rod made by themselves, and let a few zombies carry them away, anyway, these undead creatures will not feel tired, there is no need to have such a good coolie in vain!
After marching slowly like this for more than three days, Zhou Xiaoyang and the others finally arrived near the town, and happened to meet a group of puppet soldiers patrolling around the town.
There were more than 100 puppet soldiers, and after seeing so many enemy troops rushing in the direction of the town, they were so frightened that they immediately fled back to the city to report the news.
And the puppet army officers in the city didn't have much to do after learning about this situation, after all, now the demons have suffered serious losses because of the big battle with the Blue Dragon Empire, and the remaining troops have to defend those more important cities, so as to gain time for the construction of a new defense line, as for a remote town like where he is, it is impossible to send troops and horses to support.
So after thinking for a while, the puppet army officer decisively took his hundreds of soldiers and slipped away.
Seeing this, the demons in the city and the civilians of the Xuangu Continent also followed, and when Zhou Xiaoyang and the undead army arrived, they only saw an empty city.
After some searching, the useful things in this city were basically taken away by the enemy, this kind of worthless empty city, Zhou Xiaoyang and they didn't even bother to leave soldiers and horses to garrison, and soon continued to go on the road to chase and kill the fleeing enemy army, by the way to see if they could take another town behind.
At the beginning, those puppet soldiers ran faster, and the slow undead soldiers were thrown off more than ten miles away, but as time went on, those puppet soldiers began to feel tired, and the marching speed began to slow down, not to mention those civilians, many people couldn't run anymore, so they simply found a bush and a cave on the side of the road to hide.
Fortunately, Zhou Xiaoyang and the others were not interested in chasing and killing those civilians, but kept staring at those puppet soldiers.
Finally, when the two sides were only a few kilometers away, the group of puppet soldiers finally rushed to the next town, and then the puppet army officers led by them immediately stepped forward to call the door, wanting the defenders in the city to open the city gate and let them in.
However, the defenders of Chengtou Mountain looked at the enemy army not far away, and they couldn't see the end at a glance, but they didn't dare to open the door at all, for fear that the enemy army would take the opportunity to rush in after opening the door.
Seeing this, the puppet army officer was so angry that he cursed, but he couldn't let the defenders open the door at all, seeing that the enemy behind him was getting closer and closer to them, this puppet army officer was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and decided to surrender to the Qinglong Empire.
So soon, Zhou Xiaoyang, who was sitting on the sliding pole and walking slowly, was so comfortable that he was about to fall asleep, and they saw the puppet army officer holding a white flag and came to the front of the battle, and then said that he wanted to lead the army to surrender. The puppet soldiers not far away obviously didn't want to die, so they put down their weapons in order to show their sincerity.
When Zhou Xiaoyang saw this, he immediately understood that this group of puppet soldiers was really ready to surrender in order to survive! So Zhou Xiaoyang agreed to the surrender of this group of puppet troops with only more than 500 people, and then let them take up arms again, and together with the army of the undead, went to attack the town in front.
After successfully surrendering to the Qinglong Empire and being accepted, these puppet soldiers suddenly trembled one by one, came to the city wall of the town with their weapons in their arms, and began to shout and curse arrogantly.
And the defenders of Chengtou Mountain didn't even dare to fight back, after all, those traitors had a full 10,000 undead warriors behind them! And they don't have much confidence, there are only a few hundred people in the city, and they are no match for so many undead soldiers!
However, the puppet army guard of this town is a guy who is more loyal to the demon master, even in the face of this situation, he does not want to surrender, but is trying to gather the young people in the city, and wants to work hard to hold the city and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
And Zhou Xiaoyang and the others shouted for a while after the surrendered puppet soldiers, and they didn't see the enemy about to open the door and surrender, so they immediately launched an attack.
The two thousand skeleton archers were the first to release a rain of arrows towards the town, and the three thousand skeleton crossbowmen in the rear were divided into three groups by Zhou Xiaoyang and them, using three-stage shooting, making the crossbow arrows endless.
As the dense rain fell from the sky, hundreds of comrades were nailed to death in an instant, and the puppet soldiers who were fooled by the puppet defenders into holding the city finally understood what such a large number of enemy troops represented, which was a force that they could not resist at all.
Under the suppression of the rain of arrows, the defenders on the city wall could not come out to fight back, and Zhou Xiaoyang and the others took the opportunity to let more than a thousand zombie warriors who had been replaced with steel knives and large shields start to carry a few improvised simple wooden ladders towards the city wall quickly.
During this period, the defenders on the city wall did not come forward to shoot arrows at those zombie warriors, not even the puppet army guard.
So the more than 1,000 zombie warriors successfully arrived at the city wall, and then leaned the wooden ladders against the city wall, and began to climb unhurriedly towards the top of the city wall one by one.
When the first zombie warrior climbed to the top of the wall, those defender soldiers found out that something was wrong, but unfortunately it was too late, these zombie warriors were comparable to the strength of Ming Jin warriors, with terrible brute strength, and they were all equipped with heavy full-body plate armor, and the whole body was wrapped under the thick stainless steel plate armor, and ordinary attacks could not break the defense at all, and these guys would not feel tired like living people at all, so even if they wore such heavy armor, they could always maintain their best state to fight.
After the zombie warriors climbed into the city wall, they immediately brandished the steel knives in their hands and slashed at the puppet soldiers around them.
And those puppet soldiers are naturally fighting back, but the swords and spears that stabbed at these zombie warriors actually only sparked a few sparks on their thick armor, and they couldn't break the defense at all, but the zombie warriors slashed out with all their might, each knife would set off a rain of blood, and at the same time, the skeleton crossbowmen outside the city still kept releasing arrows, after all, Zhou Xiaoyang knew that those arrows and crossbow arrows couldn't break the defense of those heavy full-body plate armor, so there was no need to be afraid of accidentally injuring allies, and they could continue to suppress the firepower.